Willits, California City of Willits Willits Arch Willits Arch Location of Willits, California Location of Willits, California City of Willits is positioned in the US City of Willits - City of Willits Willits (formerly Little Lake and Willitsville) is a town/city in Mendocino County, California, United States. Willits is positioned 20 miles (32 km) north-northwest of Ukiah, at an altitude of 1391 feet (424 m). The populace was 4,888 at the 2010 census, down from 5,073 at the 2000 census.
Willits is at the center of Mendocino County and at the beginning of the county's extensive redwood forests as approached by Highway 101 from the south.
An arch donated to the town/city by Reno, Nevada in 1995 stands in the center of town and displays Willits' slogans "Heart of Mendocino County" and "Gateway to the Redwoods." The Sherwood Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California is headquartered in Willits.
Located at the center of Mendocino County in the Little Lake Valley, 20 miles (32 km) north of Ukiah on U.S.
Under the Koppen climate classification Willits has a warm-summer mediterranean climate (csb).
The mountain peaks to the west along with a momentous influence of mild Pacific air cause Willits to have a cool winter and hot day/cool evening summer climate.
Average January temperatures range from 32 F (0 C) to 54.9 F (12.7 C).
Average July temperatures range from 47.3 F (8.5 C) to 85.3 F (29.6 C).
There are an average of 34.5 days with highs of 90 F (32 C) or higher, and an average of 80.3 days with lows of 32 F (0 C) or lower.
The record maximum temperature was 118 F (48 C) on June 30, 2005, and the record minimum temperature was 3 F ( 16 C) on December 9, 1972. Annual rain averages 51.4 inches (1,310 mm). The wettest year on record was 1983 with 91.58 inches (2,326 mm) and the driest year on record was 2013 with 16.68 inches (424 mm). The most rain in one month was 31.41 inches (798 mm) in December 1964.
There are occasional snow falls in Willits each year, with an average of 3.7 inches (94 mm) of snow annually.
Climate data for Willits Average rain days 14 12 13 9 5 2 0 1 2 7 13 14 92 Willits hotel, 1903 California Western Railroad double-header excursion train at Willits Depot, 1974 Hiram Willits appeared from Indiana in 1857 to settle in the Little Lake Valley. Kirk Brier established the settlement on Willits' land. Willits was originally called Willitsville. Later, when the postal service opened in 1861, it was called Little Lake. The name changed to Willits in 1874. Willits incorporated in 1888. Elijah Frost, age 29, along with Abijah "Bige" Gibson and Tom Mc - Cracken, both reported to be about 19 years of age, were charged with petty larceny having been accused of stealing a saddle and harness.
A meeting was held in the Willits Masonic Temple and amid the early morning hours of September 4, 1879, a group of 30 masked "regulators", all members of the small-town Masonic Temple, seized the prisoners from two guards, proceeded to take the trio to a bridge north of town at the base of Sherwood Road, placed a rope around their necks and rocks in their pockets and pushed them off the side-guards of the bridge with their feet left dangling in the water, symbolic of a Masonic hanging.
The Willits region is the final home of the racehorse Seabiscuit.
Willits High School is positioned on the north end of Willits.
Every July, Willits hosts the Frontier Days & Rodeo, the earliest continuous rodeo and Independence Day celebration in California.
It is also home to the Roots of Motive Power Locomotive Museum, the Mendocino County Museum, and Willits Center for the Arts. Some notable names from Willits include Judi Bari, workforce prestige and surroundingal activist, who fought to save the Redwoods.
Over 1,000 citizens attended her Willits funeral in 1997.
Tre Cool, drummer for Green Day, lived in Willits amid his teen years in the 1980s.
Mona Gnader, the bass player for Sammy Hagar also resided in Willits.
The folk singer Jeff Buckley spent a year at Willits High School. Stagecoach bandit Charles Bolles (aka Black Bart) stole multiple Wells Fargo boxes and mail from stagecoaches traveling through Willits. Technical death metal bands Embryonic Devourment & Hellusinit also come from Willits. Five miles east of Willits, the San Francisco Bay Area Council of the Boy Scouts Of America operates a 2,200-acre (8.9 km2) camp titled Wente Scout Reservation.
Previously known as Willits Scout Ranch, the camp in 1984 "saved" the town of Willits amid an emergency water crisis by releasing 20,000 acre feet (25,000,000 m3) of water from their private lake into the town's water system. Willits is also home to classical guitar luthier Gregory Byers. Beginning in 1996, the town/city and many inhabitants became embroiled in lawsuits against the Whitman Corporation (later acquired by Pepsi - Co, Inc.), alleging that hexavalent chromium pollution left by the Remco Hydraulics chrome plating plant, which was owned by Bob Harrah and Whitman and directed in Willits from 1964 1995, is responsible for a host of small-town community problems. Litigator Erin Brockovich, known for the eponymous movie about her work in a similar case, participated in a lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiffs.
Willits Rail Yard The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Willits had a populace of 4,888.
The ethnic makeup of Willits was 3,862 (79.0%) White, 34 (0.7%) African American, 216 (4.4%) Native American, 68 (1.4%) Asian, 5 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 479 (9.8%) from other competitions, and 224 (4.6%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 4,794 citizens (98.1% of the population) lived in homeholds, 52 (1.1%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 42 (0.9%) were institutionalized. There were 1,914 homeholds, out of which 667 (34.8%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 693 (36.2%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 320 (16.7%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 143 (7.5%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
609 homeholds (31.8%) were made up of individuals and 281 (14.7%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The populace dispersal was 1,270 citizens (26.0%) under the age of 18, 412 citizens (8.4%) aged 18 to 24, 1,191 citizens (24.4%) aged 25 to 44, 1,273 citizens (26.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 742 citizens (15.2%) who were 65 years of age or older.
2,215 citizens (45.3% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 2,579 citizens (52.8%) lived in rental housing units. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 4,247 (83.72%) White, 32 (0.63%) African American, 179 (3.53%) Native American, 59 (1.2%) Asian, 2 (0.04%) Pacific Islander, 359 (7.08%) from other competitions, and 195 (3.84%) from two or more competitions.
There were 1,935 homeholds out of which 35.6% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 40.2% were married couples living together, 17.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 36.4% were non-families.
The average homehold size was 2.56 and the average family size was 3.15. In the city, the populace dispersal was 29.2% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 14.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 11.6% of families and 14.5% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 18.0% of those under age 18 and 4.3% of those age 65 or over. Major employers in Willits include the Frank R.
Willits is the easterly end of the California Western Railroad (otherwise known as the "Skunk Train"), running through the Coast Redwood forests to coastal Fort Bragg.
The old redwood Willits Depot was assembled in 1915 by the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific.
Willits Municipal Airport (also known as Ells Field) is a enhance general aviation airport with one runway, positioned 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of the city. Route 101 is the primary highway through Willits, passing through the town/city as Main Street, connecting Eureka to the north and San Francisco to the south.
To reduce traffic congestion in the city, especially on US 101/Main Street, the Willits Bypass universal is building a freeway bypass to the east of the city, despite the controversy related to the bypass's route through protected wetlands. In the state legislature, Willits is in the 2nd Senate District, represented by Democrat Mike Mc - Guire, and the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jim Wood. Federally, Willits is in California's 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman. "California Cities by Incorporation Date" (Word).
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Willits, California a b c d e f Durham, David L.
"A Town Diseased and Torn / Willits split on whether illnesses are due to chemicals left by shuttered plant".
The Willits News.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - Willits city".
Willits Depot "Caltrans Ordered to Stop Work on Willits Bypass".
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