Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Shingletown, CA

Shingletown is a census-designated place in Shasta County, strung along California State Route 44 in the hills just below Mount Lassen, and it is known as the Gateway to Lassen Volcanic National Park.

Shingletown was originally named Shingle Camp, after the workers who cut wooden roofing shingles and slats from local timber to supply miners during the Gold Rush era.

The town grew out of logging the big timber of the southern Cascade foothills - pine, fir, and cedar - which shaped its economy for generations.

Shingletown had a population of 2,442 in the 2020 census, living in 1,090 households with an average size of 2.24 people, and about 84% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Shingletown sits at an elevation of 3,491 feet, and it is one of Shasta County's older communities, with a median age of 57.1 years and about a third of residents aged 65 or older.

The state of California classifies Shingletown as living in a 'Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone,' and Cal Fire chose the Highway 44 corridor through town for its highest-priority fuel-reduction project in the state, trimming 1,124 acres of vegetation.

The forests around Shingletown are home to the Shasta clarkia, a rare subspecies of flowering plant in the evening primrose family found almost nowhere else.

Shingletown once had its own small general-aviation airport northeast of town, but it was closed on October 1, 2002, for safety reasons.