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Platina is a tiny unincorporated community and census-designated place in Shasta County, sitting about 40 miles west of both Redding and Red Bluff in the forested foothills of southwestern Shasta County.

Platina was founded in 1902 as Noble's Station, named after local resident Don Noble, and it served as a stage stop for stagecoaches running between Red Bluff and the settlements of Knob, Wildwood, Peanut, and Hayfork, with a boarding house, general store, and post office.

The community got its present name in the 1920s, when Noble and others discovered platinum in nearby Beegum Creek, and Noble's Station quickly became known as Platina, the Spanish word for platinum.

The current Platina post office was established in 1921, and it and the general store still stand on almost the same spot as the old Noble's Station stage stop.

The 2020 census counted just 13 residents in Platina, spread across about 2.07 square miles for a density of roughly 6 people per square mile, and 2020 was the first census in which Platina appeared as a census-designated place.

Just south of Platina stands the Saint Herman of Alaska Monastery, a Serbian Orthodox monastic community founded in 1968 by Father Herman Podmoshensky and Father Seraphim Rose.

Father Seraphim Rose, a Pomona College and UC Berkeley graduate who became a widely read Orthodox author and translator, printed many of his works at the monastery and is buried in its cemetery following his death in 1982.

Platina sits at an elevation of 2,277 feet and has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, averaging about 35 inches of precipitation a year, including around 20 inches of snow, despite summer highs that have reached a record 112 degrees.