Lassen County has over 1,000 topographical features whether it be a spring, flat or mountain. Most of these features are unknown by the public at large. Researching those places presented a challenge such as today’s featured topic Jesus Spring. Since this spring is located on the west side of Fort Sage Mountains.  I turned to my trusty source Phil Hall who was born at Constantia in 1909 and was a Long Valley resident until 1974. According to Phil, this spring  was named for a Spaniard who lived at Dry Valley. He built a hand hewn pine water trough at the spring. For many years the spring was referred to as “Kasuth” or “Casuth” spring. When the Taylor Grazing Act in 1937 (now known as the Bureau of Land Management)  was established, the local officials of that agency thought the name must be Jesus in Spanish and so they named it Jesus Spring.

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