Arcata, California Arcata, California Arcata Farmer's Market Official seal of Arcata, California Map of California showing the locale of Arcata Map of California showing the locale of Arcata Arcata is positioned in California Arcata - Arcata Arcata (Hupa: do'-khah-oon-tetl ding', meaning "big flat place"), originally Union Town or Union, is a town/city adjoining to the Arcata Bay (northern) portion of Humboldt Bay in Humboldt County, California, United States.
At the 2010 census, Arcata's populace was 17,231.
Arcata, positioned 280 miles (450 km) north of San Francisco (via Highway 101), is home to Humboldt State University.
Arcata is also the locale of the Arcata Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Land Management, which is responsible for the administration of natural resources, lands and mineral programs, including the Headwaters Forest, on approximately 200,000 acres of enhance territory in Northwestern California.
Arcata has been prominently progressive in its political makeup, and was the first town/city in the United States to elect a majority of its town/city council members from the Green Party.
As a result of the progressive majority, Arcata capped the number of chain restaurants allowed in the city. Arcata was also the first municipality to ban the expansion of any type of Genetically Modified Organism inside town/city limits, with exceptions for research and educational purposes. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 11.0 square miles (28.5 km2), of which 9.1 square miles (23.6 km2) is territory and 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2) (17.25%) is water.
Arcata contains primary enhance and shopping areas inside the city.
There are additional titled neighborhoods encompassed by the city: They include: Aldergrove, Alliance (which was once a separate improve positioned North of Arcata), Arcata Bottoms, portions of Bayside (despite it having its own Post Office and postal code), Bayview, California Heights, the Creamery District, Fickle Hill (lower portions), Greenview, the Marsh District (aka South G Street), Redwood Park (which includes the City owned Redwood forest), Sunny Brae, Sunset, and Westwood.
Arcata also has the Arcata Marsh, a preserve positioned on the City's bay shore. Arcata's climate is dominated by marine influences associated with Humboldt Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
On average, Arcata experiences 40 to 50 inches (1,000 to 1,300 mm) of precipitation per year, though there is a short but pronounced dry season from June to September.
Climate data for Arcata, California The Pythian Castle building in Arcata is on the National Register of Historic Places The Jacoby Building, generally known as Jacoby's Storehouse, on the Plaza in Arcata, is one of Humboldt County's earliest commercial buildings (the first floor dates from 1857), and is also on the National Register of Historic Places.
Some suburbs decline in populace following a bust, while some, like Arcata, experience a change in demographics. In the case of Arcata, the peak and the bust were close due to Arcata's mostly late entry into the timber industry, and its domination by mechanization. The populace of the town/city of Arcata was 3,729 amid its peak 1950, when lumber was exported throughout the nation and abroad.
For Arcata specifically, those age 65 and older were 8.3% of the populace in 1950, and the median age was 29.4 years. After the bust, in 1955, the populace of Arcata in 1960 was 5,235.
In Arcata the populace under the age of 15 was 28.1%.
Those age 15-24 made up 22.8% of Arcata's population.
Those age 40-54 made up 16% of Arcata's population.
Those age 55-64 made up 6.7% of Arcata's population.
Those age 65 and over made up 6.9% of Arcata's population. Overall, census data reflects a lowering in the age of the Arcata population, due to an influx of young workers, due to there not being enough time after the bust for older workers to leave, in the decade between 1950 and 1960, amid which the timber trade peaked and busted.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Arcata had a populace of 17,231.
The ethnic makeup of Arcata was: The populace dispersal was with 2,164 citizens (12.6%) under the age of 18, 5,891 citizens (34.2%) aged 18 to 24, 4,619 citizens (26.8%) aged 25 to 44, 3,149 citizens (18.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,408 citizens (8.2%) who were 65 years of age or older.
The composition of Arcata's homeholds reflect the large number of unrelated college-age students living together.
Of the 7,051 homeholds in Arcata, only 19.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, only 25.9% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, while 60.1% were non-families.
Arcata's age cohorts are also distorted by a large percentage of college-age students.
Only 15.3% of Arcata inhabitants are under the age of 18, while nearly a third (32.3%) fall between ages 18 and 24, and 27.8% are 25 to 44 years old.
For many years the timber trade dominated Arcata's economy.
Today, the majority of Arcata jobs come from government (including schools and Humboldt State University), the city's many owner-resident small businesses, some lumber and food manufacturing, and a wide range of service industries (ranging from experienced services to restaurant and hospitality).
A large but unmeasurable cannabis economy employs many in Arcata and the encircling area. The area's economy and populace are both burgeoning more slowly than the State of California overall. Median reported homehold income in Arcata was $22,315, and the median income for a family was $36,716.
In the state legislature, Arcata is in the 2nd Senate District, represented by Democrat Mike Mc - Guire, and the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jim Wood. Federally, Arcata is in California's 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman. Arcata voters are among the most Democratic in Humboldt County.
For example, in the 2008 US presidential election, Republican candidate John Mc - Cain received less than 10% of the prominent vote in many Arcata precincts, while in those same precincts Democratic candidate Barack Obama received 85% or more of the vote. Arcata is a core of liberal thought typical of a college town, a place where surroundingalism and civil activism are broadly embraced. Humboldt County fits the statewide trend of increasingly liberal coastal counties and conservative interior counties, but some conservative voters remain. College students have, at times, been mayor or town/city council members.
Arcata was the first town/city to have a Green Party majority in their town/city council.
Arcata is also one of three metros/cities in California and one of four metros/cities in the United States to have ever held a Green Party majority in their town/city councils.
Arcata is the site of Humboldt State University, the northernmost ground of the 23-campus California State University system.
With a student body equaling nearly half the city's total population, Arcata is a classic example of a traditional "college town." The major enhance high school is Arcata High School with a total populace of 827 for the 2012-2013 school year.
The high school is positioned at 1720 M Street in Arcata, and is part of the Northern Humboldt Union High School District.
The school offers a number of programs including an Advanced Placement program, special programs through the Arcata Arts Institute, and a range of student clubs.
Arcata Plaza The heart of Arcata is the Plaza.
The Plaza is also the center of Humboldt County's biggest farmers' market (April through November), and serves as a primary venue for small-town Fourth of July festivities, the Arcata Main Street Oyster Festival, the start of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, and the North Country Fair.
The Plaza is also a prominent rendezvous point for travelers who stop off in Arcata.
Arcata Plaza looking northeast from top of Brizard Building The Wiyot citizens who lived in Arcata before the pioneer appeared called the Plaza "Goad-la-nah" for the "land a little above the water". Arcata's Minor Theater is one of the earliest movies-only theaters in the United States which is still in operation. It is also home to the Arcata Theatre.
"Kori" is the name for the Wiyot settlement that existed on the site of what would turn into Arcata. The name "Arcata" comes from the Yurok term oket'oh, meaning "where there is a lagoon" (referring to Humboldt Bay), from o-, "place", plus ket'oh, "to be a lagoon".
The traditional homeland of the Wiyot ranged from the Little River in the north and continues south through Humboldt Bay (including the present metros/cities of Eureka and Arcata) and then south to the lower Eel River basin.
Arcata Police Department is positioned 736 F St, Arcata, CA 95521.
Arcata Plaza in the 1890s Arcata was established as Union Town or Union (the permanent name change to "Arcata" occurred in 1860). Union was created as a port, and re-provisioning center for the gold mines in the Klamath, Trinity, and Salmon mountain peaks to the east, and was very briefly the governmental center of county amid this period.
The Union Town postal service opened in 1852 and changed its name to Arcata in 1860. In 1886, concern over the burgeoning number of unassimilated immigrants led Arcata to expel its Chinese populace and enact the following resolution: "We, the people of Arcata and vicinity, wish the total expulsion of the Chinese from our midst.
In August 1989, the voters of Arcata passed the Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Act, prohibiting work on nuclear weapons, and the storage or transit of nuclear weapons inside the City Limits.
On March 17, 2010, the Arcata town/city council voted for final passage of a Unlawful Panhandling ordinance (Ordinance No.
The downtown has a several overcrossings; Arcata is considered a fairly walkable community. State Route 299 joins to U.S.
The highways connecting Arcata to areas outside Humboldt County include long segments of winding two-lane road traversing remote mountain peaks and river canyons, portions of which may close after extensive precipitation and wind storms, requiring possibly long detours.
While Arcata, Eureka, Fortuna and the Redwood Coast region are part of the most crowded state in the US, the Redwood Coast region is also one of the most remote locations along the continental US west coast.
Redwood Transit System (RTS) is the primary provider of enhance bus transit in Humboldt County with a several stops in Arcata.
Arcata and Mad River Transit Service (AMRTS) is the small-town bus and serves Arcata and unincorporated areas such as the bottom.
Transit and longhaul bus services including Amtrak and Greyhound use the Arcata Transit Center as their central interchange point for Arcata.
In 1854, the Union Wharf and Plank Walk Company assembled redwood plank and rails 2.7 miles (4.3 km) out into the deeper water of Arcata Bay, providing Arcata with a deep-water seaport.
This eventually became the Arcata and Mad River Railroad (now defunct).
Arcata's wharf is long gone, and only a several piers can be seen at low tide.
However, at low tide Arcata Bay becomes a vast mud flat and a challenge to boaters.
The Eureka Times-Standard is the only primary county-wide daily printed announcement covering Arcata.
The Arcata Eye was a former weekly journal covering Arcata and Blue Lake until it consolidated with the Mc - Kinleyville Press journal in 2013 to turn into the Mad River Union. The Northcoast Environmental Center, positioned in Arcata, has presented Econews as a monthly journal since 1971. HSU produces a weekly student-run paper titled The Lumberjack and a student-run, general-interest magazine, the Osprey, presented once a semester. Arcata is also home to HSU's student-run airways broadcast, KRFH 105.1 FM, which is notable for being one of a select several no-charge form airways broadcasts still on air today. The town has a number of small 'zines and blogs that cover a range of small-town issues including youth culture and homelessness.
The Arcata Marsh, a constructed network of contaminating and saltwater ponds initially instead of in 1979, demonstrates a revolutionary marsh-based wastewater treatment system. The marsh was assembled on a retired municipal solid waste dump and has received many awards, including the Innovations in Government award from the Ford Foundation and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
The City owns a total of 2,100 acres (8.5 km2) of forest land, including the Arcata Community Forest, the Sunny Brae Forest, and the Jacoby Creek Forest.
Arcata's improve forest lands have been the subject of nationwide media attention. The Arcata Community Forest was originally acquired by the City in order to protect the integrity of its municipal waterworks.
Upon acquisition in 1955, The Arcata Community Forest was dedicated as the first city-owned improve forest in the State of California. Since then it has served many functions including recreation, education, sustainable timber harvesting, and wildlife surrounding.
The forest serves as the headwaters of many of Arcata's urban streams.
In 1979, the people of Arcata passed the "Forest Management and Parkland Initiative." The intent of the legislation was to precarious a responsible and ecologically sensitive long-term forest management program, which would furnish timber-harvest revenues for the acquisition and evolution of City parkland. In 1998 the Arcata Community Forest was the first municipal forest certified in the U.S.
Under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Since that time additional acreage has been protected, such as the 175-acre (0.71 km2) Sunny Brae Forest acquisition in 2006, and the 2009 receipt of a donated 185-acre (0.75 km2) conservation easement adjoining to the Arcata Community Forest's northern boundary in the upper Janes Creek watershed. In August 1989, the voters of Arcata passed the Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Act, prohibiting activities benefiting nuclear weapons contractors inside town/city jurisdictional limits. Arcata inhabitants are active in county-wide surroundingal protection, and played a contributing part in the prosperous accomplishment to preserve the Headwaters Forest from logging.
Arcata is home to the Humboldt Crabs, the nation's longest continuously directed semi-pro baseball team, which has played every season since 1945. Arcata's Plaza is the starting point for the Kinetic Sculpture Race.
Arcata Main Street Oyster Festival "I" Street Block Party, in the summer to benefit Arcata's sister town/city Arcata Community Forest City of Arcata.
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