Mendocino, California Mendocino, California Mendocino, California Location in Mendocino County and the state of California Location in Mendocino County and the state of California Mendocino, California is positioned in the US Mendocino, California - Mendocino, California Mendocino (formerly, Big River, Meiggstown, and Mendocino City) is an unincorporated improve in Mendocino County, California, United States.

Mendocino is positioned 9.5 miles (15 km) south of Fort Bragg, at an altitude of 154 feet (47 m). The populace of the census-designated place (CDP) was 894 at the 2010 census, up from 824 at the 2000 census.

The town's name comes from Cape Mendocino, titled by early Spanish navigators with respect to Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy of New Spain.

The revitalization of the town began in the late 1950s with the beginning of the Mendocino Art Center by artist Bill Zacha. Most of the town was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mendocino County, California in 1971 as the Mendocino and Headlands Historic District. Mendocino Presbyterian Church on Main Street, dedicated on July 5, 1868, is one of the earliest continuously used Protestant churches in California, and is designated as California Historical Landmark #714.

Since 1987, Mendocino has been the site of the Mendocino Music Festival, a classically based but musically diverse series of concerts that is held annually in a huge circus-type performance tent on the town's Main Street in the Mendocino Headlands State Park.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 7.4 square miles (19 km2), of which, 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2) of it is territory and 5.2 square miles (13 km2) of it (69.58%) is water.

Mendocino averages about 43 inches of precipitation per year concentrated mainly in fall, winter, spring, and early summer.

According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Mendocino has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. View of Mendocino from the Northwest with the Mendocino Music Festival tent to the right The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Mendocino had a populace of 894.

There were 447 homeholds, out of which 62 (13.9%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 177 (39.6%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 22 (4.9%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 15 (3.4%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.

The populace was spread out with 93 citizens (10.4%) under the age of 18, 58 citizens (6.5%) aged 18 to 24, 166 citizens (18.6%) aged 25 to 44, 333 citizens (37.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 244 citizens (27.3%) who were 65 years of age or older.

520 citizens (58.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 310 citizens (34.7%) lived in rental housing units.

In the state legislature, Mendocino is in the 2nd Senate District, represented by Democrat Mike Mc - Guire, and the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jim Wood. Federally, Mendocino is in California's 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman. Many films and movies have been filmed in and around Mendocino and Mendocino County, including Dying Young, The Russians Are Coming; Overboard; The Dunwich Horror; The Karate Kid, Part III; Dead & Buried; Forever Young; Same Time Next Year; Racing with the Moon; Pontiac Moon; and The Majestic.

Mendocino was depicted as turn-of-the-20th-century Monterey in the James Dean classic East of Eden, and it served as a New England resort town in Summer of '42 (the latter film featuring various small-town Mendocino High School students as extras).

Nine episodes of the 264-episode program were filmed in Mendocino, while exterior shots throughout Mendocino were used in the remaining episodes.

Mendocino is also the home of the Mendocino Film Festival which was first held in May 2006.

Mendocino is a sister town/city with Miasa, Japan, a relationship that formed due to the friendship of Mendocino artist Bill Zacha and Japanese artist Toshi Yoshida and that was formalized in 1980. Every other year Miasa students visit Mendocino middle school students. Mendocino Headlands State Park Mendocino Woodlands State Park Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mendocino, California "Mendocino Newest Art Colony in U.S.", Los Angeles Times, January 12, 1964.

Swartz, Susan (December 17, 1995), "The artist who put Mendocino on the map", Santa Rosa Press-Democrat.

California Historical Landmarks: Mendocino County.

Climate Summary for Mendocino, California "2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - Mendocino CDP".

Korbel, Connie (May 25, 2006), "Mendocino hosts Miasa sister town/city group", Mendocino Beacon.

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