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Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Loleta, California Loleta (formerly, Swauger and Swauger's Station) (Wiyot: Guduwalhat) is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California which derives its name from laloeka, the Wiyot name for the trail on the top of Table Bluff.
Loleta is positioned 5.5 miles (9 km) south of Fields Landing, and 15 miles (24 km) south of Eureka at an altitude of 46 feet (14 m). The populace was 783 at the 2010 census.
The town was retitled Loleta in 1897.
The name was reported to mean "pleasant place at the end of the tide water" in the language of the initial Wiyot native inhabitants, although this is apparently contradicted linguistically as well as by a hearsay account from the 1950s, made notorious by a National Geographic blog post. However, a 1918 list of place names collected by Kroeber and Waterman two years after Kroeber's 1916 printed announcement shows that the trail from Table Bluff along the peak of that feature was titled "laloeka". The Eel River and Eureka Railroad reached Swauger's Station from Humboldt Bay in 1883. The Swauger postal service opened in 1888, and changed its name to Loleta in 1898. The Humboldt Creamery plant (originally Diamond Springs Creamery, eventually a co-operative of the Golden State Creamery) opened in the town proper in 1893, and dairying continues to be a primary economic influence.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reorganized Loleta's barns as the San Francisco and Northwestern Railway in 1903 and then instead of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad to San Francisco in 1914. Located 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Eel River, which drains 10 percent of the total California watershed, and four miles from the Pacific Ocean and Humboldt Bay, fishing has also been a momentous economic factor in the small-town economy.
In the early years of the 20th century, fish buyers from San Francisco congregated in Loleta every fall to bid on the salmon catch, which averaged $50,000.
There are two Humboldt County parks positioned near Loleta, generally to the west toward the Pacific Ocean: Crab County Park and Table Bluff County Park as well as a several beach, dunes, and wetlands Public Land Areas. The Aleutian Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii leucopareia) has in recent years extended its spring staging region to Loleta.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Loleta had a populace of 783.
The ethnic makeup of Loleta was 643 (82.1%) White, 12 (1.5%) African American, 16 (2.0%) Native American, 5 (0.6%) Asian, 0 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 65 (8.3%) from other competitions, and 42 (5.4%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 783 citizens (100% of the population) lived in homeholds, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.
The populace was spread out with 186 citizens (23.8%) under the age of 18, 81 citizens (10.3%) aged 18 to 24, 207 citizens (26.4%) aged 25 to 44, 241 citizens (30.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 68 citizens (8.7%) who were 65 years of age or older.
460 citizens (58.7% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 323 citizens (41.3%) lived in rental housing units.
Native Americans represent about 2% of Loleta's population, as stated to the 2010 US census. Whites make up 82.1 percent of the populace of 783 (less than the 807 inhabitants the census recorded in 1880).
Loleta is the seat of the Loleta Union School District, and home of the Loleta Elementary School, a enhance K-8 school. Downtown Loleta has a cheese factory and store, a grocery store, a meat market, a bakery (closed March 2014), a realty office, and a postal service. The Loleta Elementary school, two churches and the firefighter's pavilion, managed by small-town volunteer firefighters are closer to U.S.
The Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria is headquartered in Loleta, where they operate the Bear River Casino. Loleta and Eureka were locations for recording the 1982 horror movie, Halloween III: Season of the Witch; scenes inside "the Silver Shamrock Novelties factory" were filmed in a former milk bottling plant for Familiar Foods on Loleta Drive at Railroad Avenue. Drive (The X-Files), Season 6, Episode 2 of the hit show X-files, features Loleta momentarily near the end of the episode.
In the state legislature, Loleta is in the 2nd Senate District, represented by Democrat Mike Mc - Guire, and the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jim Wood. Federally, Loleta is in California's 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman. Northwest school artist, Morris Graves lived in Loleta from 1964 until his death in 2001, in a home designed by Seattle architect Ibsen Nelson.
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"Loleta Elementary School District".
Loleta Community Report (PDF).
Arcata, California: Department of Sociology, Humboldt State University.
"California's 2nd Congressional District - Representatives & District Map".
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Loleta: A Town History.
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Municipalities and communities of Humboldt County, California, United States
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