POPULATION: 28,833

INCORPORATION DATE: 1864

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

• District 1 – Chris Gallagher
• District 2 – Gary Bridges
• District 3 – Tom Neely
• District 4 – Aaron Albaugh
• District 5 – Jason Ingram

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 murdered under mysterious circumstances near the Black Rock Desert in 1859, and his murder was never solved.