POPULATION: 34,167

INCORPORATION DATE: 1864

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

• District 1 – Robert F. Pyle
• District 2 – Jim Chapman
• District 3 – Larry Wosick
• District 4 – Aaron Albaugh
• District 5 – Jack Hanson

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: General Law

LASSEN. County seat, Susanville. Created April 1, 1864. The county’s name was derived from Mount Lassen which was named for Peter Lassen, one of General Fremont’s guides and a famous trapper, frontiersman and Indian fighter. He was killed by the Paiutes at the base of the mountain in 1859.