Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in McCloud, CA

McCloud is a census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California, sitting on the southern slope of Mount Shasta at an elevation of 3,271 feet.

The town takes its name from Ross McCloud, an early figure in the area's history.

McCloud began as a lumber town: A. F. George erected a lumber mill there in 1892, but the venture failed because the lumber had to be hauled over the hills by oxen.

The McCloud River Railroad Company was founded in 1895, and the lumber and railroad company went on to operate McCloud as a company town from 1896 to 1963.

The McCloud River Lumber Company mill supplied electricity and steam heat to the town's homes, and McCloud — remembered as 'Mother McCloud' — was among the first towns in northern California with steam heat, electricity, indoor plumbing and telephone service.

The mill was sold to U.S. Plywood in 1963, and in 1965 the company homes passed into private ownership, ending McCloud's company-town era.

After the company era ended, the McCloud Community Services District was formed to run the town's utilities, library, police and fire services.

McCloud's sawmill closed in 1979, briefly reopened in 1980, and then shut for good in 2002.

Part of downtown McCloud forms the McCloud Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

In 2006 Nestlé negotiated to build a bottled-water plant in McCloud using Mount Shasta spring water, but local protests helped derail the plan, and Nestlé instead opened a plant in Sacramento in 2009.