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Redding is the county seat of Shasta County and the economic and cultural capital of Northern California's Shasta Cascade region.

Redding grew up around the Central Pacific Railroad's northern terminus, which reached the site then known as Poverty Flats in 1872.

The town was named for Benjamin B. Redding, a former Sacramento politician and land agent for the Central Pacific Railroad.

Redding incorporated on October 4, 1887, and won the Shasta County seat from the older town of Shasta in 1888.

Redding had 93,611 residents in the 2020 census, making it the largest city in California north of Sacramento.

Redding counted 37,761 households in the 2020 census, averaging about 2.46 people each.

Redding's Sundial Bridge, opened on July 4, 2004, was Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's first free-standing bridge design in the United States.

The Sundial Bridge's 217-foot tilted pylon serves as the gnomon of one of the world's largest working sundials.

The Sundial Bridge was built without footings in the Sacramento River so it would not disturb salmon spawning habitat, at a cost of about $23.5 million funded largely by the McConnell Foundation.

The Sundial Bridge links the two campuses of the 300-acre Turtle Bay Exploration Park and serves as a gateway to Redding's Sacramento River Trail system.