Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Colusa, CA

Colusa is a city and the county seat of Colusa County, California, sitting behind a high levee on the Sacramento River in the Sacramento Valley.

The town was founded in 1850 by Charles D. Semple, who bought the Rancho Colus land grant and first called the place Salmon Bend, then Colusi; the California legislature changed the name of both the town and the county to Colusa in 1854.

The name Colusa comes from the Coru, a Patwin Native American people whose village stood across the Sacramento River from the present city in the 1840s.

Colusa incorporated on June 16, 1868, and its county - created in 1850 at statehood - is one of California's original 27 counties.

Colusa had 6,411 residents at the 2020 census, living in 2,255 households with an average size of 2.8 people; about 58.6% of residents are Hispanic or Latino.

Downtown Colusa preserves a historic Chinatown, a Carnegie Library building dating to 1905, and a classical-style county courthouse.

The 1970 crime drama ...tick...tick...tick..., starring Jim Brown, was filmed in downtown Colusa, with the historic courthouse featured on screen.

Colusa County is one of the top rice-producing counties in the United States, with over 135,000 acres of rice harvested in 2016, alongside almonds and walnuts.

Local schools are Burchfield Primary School, Egling Middle School and Colusa High School, whose teams are the RedHawks - a mascot name adopted in the 2011-12 school year to replace the old Redskins name.