History. Colusa County is one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood.Parts of the county's territory were given to Tehama County in 1856 and to Glenn County in 1891.. The county was named after the 1844 Rancho Colus Mexican land grant to John Bidwell.The name of the county in the original state legislative act of 1850 was spelled Colusi, …

The term butte is sometimes applied more broadly to isolated, steep-sided hills with pointed or craggy, rather than flat, tops. Three notable formations that are either named butte or may be considered buttes even though they do not conform to the formal geographer's rule are Scotts Bluff in Nebraska which is a collection of five bluffs, Crested Butte, which is a 12,168 ft (3,709 …