Fortuna, California City of Fortuna Location in Humboldt County and the state of California Location in Humboldt County and the state of California Fortuna is positioned in the US Fortuna - Fortuna Fortuna (formerly, Slide, Springville) (Wiyot: Vutsuwitk Da'l, "ashes stay") is a town/city the northeast shore of the Eel River (approximately 9 miles (14 km) from where it enters the Pacific Ocean), and is on U.S.
Route 101 in west-central Humboldt County, California, United States.
In 1875, the name was changed to Springville amid the assembly of the Springville Mill, a lumber foundry for the close-by redwood forests, titled so because of the various springs in the area.
By the late 1870s Springville had grown enough to warrant a postal service, but a town called Springville, California (now part of Camarillo, in Ventura County) already existed in the state.
The postal service was titled Slide on May 24, 1876. In 1884 the inhabitants petitioned the state council for the name Fortuna, Spanish for "fortune" and Latin for "chance," and by July 3, 1888 the name was changed to Fortuna. The name was chosen when pioneer saw the adjacency of the forests, the river and its valley, and the Pacific Ocean, as ideal for appreciateing a good character of life, and felt "fortunate" to live there. It is believed that a small-town minister and real estate agent, desiring to sell lots to newcomers, devised the name as a marketing tool. Rohnerville (formerly Eel River Township), a town established to service the many gold miners inhabiting the mountain peaks to the north and east, was competing with Fortuna to be the dominant township in the area.
The miners would come by ship to Eureka, and then head up the Eel River to the junction with the Van Duzen River, from whence the miners headed east up the Van Duzen River Valley into Trinity County.
But when it was decided that the barns would be routed through neighboring Fortuna, it set both towns' fate. The Eel River and Eureka Railroad was assembled in 1884 to furnish Humboldt Bay shipping access to the lumber mills and farms of the lower Eel River.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reorganized Fortuna's barns as the San Francisco and Northwestern Railway in 1903, and then instead of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad to San Francisco in 1914. Fortuna became the rail core for lesser communities like Alton, Fernbridge, Ferndale, Hydesville, Newburg, Port Kenyon, Rohnerville, and Waddington.
Fortuna was the locale of one of two secondary mills of the storied Pacific Lumber Company, headquartered ten miles south in Scotia.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.8 square miles (12 km2), all of it land.
Fortuna is positioned 7 miles (11 km) from the Pacific coast on the bank of the Eel River.
Fortuna is served by U.S.
Fortuna is surrounded by national, state and county redwood parks, and is the gateway to the redwood forests of Northern California.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Fortuna had a populace of 11,926.
The ethnic makeup of Fortuna was 9,686 (81.2%) White, 73 (0.6%) African American, 444 (3.7%) Native American, 106 (0.9%) Asian, 9 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 1,065 (8.9%) from other competitions, and 543 (4.6%) from two or more competitions.
The census reported that 11,665 citizens (97.8% of the population) lived in homeholds, 189 (1.6%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 72 (0.6%) were institutionalized.
There were 4,688 homeholds, out of which 1,509 (32.2%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 2,135 (45.5%) were heterosexual married couples living together, 579 (12.4%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 279 (6.0%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 2,937 citizens (24.6%) under the age of 18, 1,192 citizens (10.0%) aged 18 to 24, 2,681 citizens (22.5%) aged 25 to 44, 3,050 citizens (25.6%) aged 45 to 64, and 2,066 citizens (17.3%) who were 65 years of age or older.
6,821 citizens (57.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 4,844 citizens (40.6%) lived in rental housing units.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 88.4% White, 0.5% Black or African American, 2.9% Native American, 1.0% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 4.0% from other competitions, and 3.2% from two or more competitions.
There were 4,185 homeholds out of which 31.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 49.6% were married couples living together, 12.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 33.6% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.0% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 22.3% from 45 to 64, and 17.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 12.1% of families and 17.4% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 24.8% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over.
According to a 2008 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are the City of Fortuna, Eel River Disposal, Fortuna Motors, Fortuna Union Elementary School District, Fortuna Union High School District, Redwood Memorial Hospital, Rohnerville School District, Safeway, St.
Fortuna is served by the Fortuna Elementary School District and the Fortuna Union High School.
In the state legislature, Fortuna is the 2nd Senate District, represented by Democrat Mike Mc - Guire, and the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jim Wood. Federally, Fortuna is in California's 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman. Twenty thousand visitors fill the town amid Fortuna's Redwood Auto - Xpo The town/city has a large number of affairs and celebrations including the Daffodil Festival, Art & Wine in the Park, the Annual Fortuna Rodeo, the Redwood Auto - Xpo, the Logging Competition, Civil War Days, and Apple Harvest, the Hops in Humboldt festival, the Fortuna Concert Series and holiday affairs including concerts and parades with performances by Scotia Band Brass Choir and Saxophone Quartet. Additionally, the Eel River was the locale for the Paddle to the Headwaters canoe race.
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California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State.
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City of Fortuna CAFR Archived March 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
"California's 2nd Congressional District - Representatives & District Map".
"Fortuna Events & Festivals".
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