Dr. Orly’s Colusi County Quiz #4
“Name that Town" (Part 2”)

The answers to this quiz are found in the “Answer Pool” which are the names of Colusi County towns—past and present. Good luck.

 

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1. Town six miles east of the Old Stone Corral.
6. Nomlaki or Wintu word for “under the cliff.”
11. First town in present day Glenn County.
2. Was once known as Germantown.
7. Named for Cleaton __________ who settled here in 1851.
12. Sold Tehama land in 1916 to the Southern Pacific Railroad.
3. Mrs. John Brown lived here in the 1860s.
8. “Wheat King” (1824-82).
13. Named in 1887 by C.E. Grunsky for a landholder.
4. Former CCC camp and missionary boot camp.
9. Named for an agent of the Nomi Lackee Indian Reservation.
14. Sugar town.
5. On the Llano Seco land grant.
10. Named for large lake between Finland and Russia or towns in IN and WI.
15. Tree found along streambeds (genus Alnus).

Answer Pool:  Afton, Alder Springs, Arbuckle, Artois, Benton City, Butte City, College City, Colusa, Corning, Delevan, Elk Creek, Flournoy, Fout Spring, Fruto, Gerber, Germantown, Grimes, Hamilton City, Henleyville, Kanawa, Leesville, Logoda, Los Molinos, Lyonsville, Maxwell, Monroeville, Newville, Olympo, Ord Bend, Orland, Paskenta, Princeton, Proberta, Red Bluff, Sites, Smithville, Stonyford, Sycamore, Tehama, Vina, Wilbur Springs, Williams, and Willows.


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