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Pondosa, California
Unincorporated community
Country	United States
State	California
County	Siskiyou
Elevation	4,140 ft (1,260 m)
Time zone	Pacific (PST) (UTC-8)
• Summer (DST)	PDT (UTC-7)
Area code(s)	530
GNIS feature ID	264928

Pondosa is an unincorporated community in Siskiyou County, California, United States. Pondosa is 33.5 miles (53.9 km) east-southeast of Mount Shasta. A post office opened in Pondosa in 1925. The community was named after the ponderosa pine by Elmer E. Hall.

Municipalities and communities of Siskiyou County, California, United States

County seat: Yreka

Cities	Dorris Dunsmuir Etna Fort Jones Montague Mount Shasta Tulelake Weed Yreka

CDPs	Carrick Edgewood Gazelle Greenview Grenada Happy Camp Hornbrook Macdoel McCloud Mount Hebron Tennant

Unincorporated communities	Bestville Big Springs Black Bear Black Butte Callahan Cecilville Cheeseville Forks of Salmon Hambone Hatfield‡ Horse Creek Klamath River Little Shasta Oro Fino Pondosa Sawyers Bar Scott Bar Seiad Valley Somes Bar

Indian reservation	Quartz Valley Indian Community

Ghost towns	Deadwood Gullion's Bar Hooperville Negro Flat Picard Wingate Bar

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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