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Cottonwood sits at 433 feet on the flat southern shelf of the Sacramento Valley, where the old stagecoach road once ran and Cottonwood Creek still cuts a gravel lined channel toward the river. That creek history left properties here with a strange mix of cobble bars near the water and heavy clay loam farther out, so a yard can drain like a sieve in one corner and hold water like a bathtub in another. Summers push past 100 degrees for weeks, and the 24 inches of rain that fall almost entirely between November and March arrive fast enough to move bare topsoil. Homeowners here, along with neighbors in Anderson, Red Bluff, and Redding, lean on deep bark mulch to keep root zones cool and on river rock and drain rock to armor the low spots that flood every winter.