| Official Name: | Pondosa, California |
| Pushpin Map: | California#USA |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | California |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Siskiyou |
| Timezone: | Pacific (PST) |
| Utc Offset: | -8 |
| Timezone Dst: | PDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -7 |
| Elevation Ft: | 4140 |
| Coordinates: | 41.1994°N -121.6889°W |
| Area Code: | 530 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 264928 |
Pondosa is an unincorporated community in Siskiyou County, California, United States. Pondosa is 33.5miles east-southeast of Mount Shasta, and is located along a former branch line of the McCloud Railway. A post office opened in Pondosa in 1925. The community was named after the ponderosa pine by Elmer E. Hall.[1]
Pondosa existed largely as a logging town, with Pondosa School District established from November 1925 to July 1933. Some structures became the property of McCloud school district. The school was later repurposed as Pondosa Branch Library, circa 1938. Sometime near 1933 logging tapered off and the area largely depopulated.[2]