Garberville, California Downtown Garberville has a retail district.
Downtown Garberville has a retail district.
Garberville is positioned in California Garberville - Garberville Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Garberville, California; U.S.
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Garberville, California Garberville is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. It is positioned on the South Fork of the Eel River 52 miles (84 km) south-southeast of Eureka, at an altitude of 535 feet (163 m). The populace was 913 at the 2010 United States Census.
It is approximately 200 miles (320 km) north of San Francisco, California, and inside a fifteen-minute drive to Humboldt Redwoods State Park and a sixty-minute drive to Eureka, the county seat.
Garberville is the major town in the region known as the Mateel Region, consisting of parts of the Mattole and Eel River watersheds in southern Humboldt and northern Mendocino counties.
In 1853 a Spanish explorer, Antone Garcia, settled in the region near Town Gulch, which runs through modern-day Garberville. The first postal service in Garberville opened in 1874. Jacob C.
Climate data for Garberville, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Garberville had a populace of 913.
The ethnic makeup of Garberville was 815 (89.3%) White, 14 (1.5%) African American, 29 (3.2%) Native American, 17 (1.9%) Asian, 0 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 7 (0.8%) from other competitions, and 31 (3.4%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 785 citizens (86.0% of the population) lived in homeholds, 128 (14.0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.
The populace was spread out with 160 citizens (17.5%) under the age of 18, 85 citizens (9.3%) aged 18 to 24, 258 citizens (28.3%) aged 25 to 44, 285 citizens (31.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 125 citizens (13.7%) who were 65 years of age or older.
388 citizens (42.5% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 397 citizens (43.5%) lived in rental housing units.
The chief street of Garberville, U.S.
Business 101 is lined with small shops, gas stations, grocery store and the only movie home in the area, the Art-Deco-style single-screen Garberville Theater.
In the state legislature, Garberville is in the 2nd Senate District, represented by Democrat Mike Mc - Guire, and the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jim Wood. Federally, Garberville is in California's 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman. A proposal to incorporate Garberville as a town/city was dropped after county supervisors declined to form a Municipal Advisory Committee due to concerns over the associated costs.
A group of small-town inhabitants once attempted to qualify a "Sequoia County" initiative to secede from both Humboldt and Mendocino County with Garberville as the new county seat, although the campaign ended without gathering enough signatures. A small-town chapter of the Green Party was formed in 2006. The Southern Humboldt Unified School District was created from 19 separate school districts in 1948 and presently serves about 800 students in an region of 745 square miles (1,930 km2). The precinct has five elementary, one high school and one learning center.
Garberville is home to both weekly newspapers in the Mateel Region, the locally owned Independent and Redwood Times, run by Media News Group as a sister printed announcement of the daily Times-Standard from Eureka. Redwood Community Radio, KMUD, broadcasts from Garberville at 91.1 FM. Humboldt Transit Authority serves from Garberville as far north as Trinidad.
Garberville Airport is a enhance airport positioned 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of town. Garberville's ZIP Code is 95542. The improve is inside region code 707. The Garberville Fire Protection District, has three engines and a utility truck, self-contained breathing apparatuses and radios. The Garberville Water Company supplies drinking water to inhabitants and maintains 27 fire hydrants on its water lines. The Garberville Sanitary District is not the same as the water company, but provides sewers in the core of the fire district. Some releases of water have contained one or more toxins. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Garberville, California.
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Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Garberville, California Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Garberville, California California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State.
Place Names of Humboldt County, California (2nd edition).
"Profile for Garberville, California, CA".
California place names: The origin and etymology of current geographical names.
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press.
"2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - Garberville CDP".
"California's 2nd Congressional District - Representatives & District Map".
"Garberville about 2002: A visit to that town down south".
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Schneider, Keith Garberville Journal; Marijuana Once Reigned as the King, New York Times, January 26, 1988 Municipalities and communities of Humboldt County, California, United States
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