Fields Landing, California
| Fields Landing | |
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| census-designated place | |
 Fields Landing
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| Coordinates: 40°43′28″N 124°12′54″W / 40.72444°N 124.21500°WCoordinates: 40°43′28″N 124°12′54″W / 40.72444°N 124.21500°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 California
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| County | Humboldt County |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.280 sq mi (0.725 km2) |
| • Land | 0.277 sq mi (0.717 km2) |
| • Water | 0.003 sq mi (0.008 km2) 1.1% |
| Elevation | 13 ft (4 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 276 |
| • Density | 990/sq mi (380/km2) |
| Time zone | Pacific (PST) (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| ZIP Code | 95537 |
| Area code(s) | 707 |
| GNIS feature IDs | 1656012; 2628730 |
| U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fields Landing, California; U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fields Landing, California | |
Fields Landing (formerly, South Bay,South Bay Station, and Adele) is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. It is located on Humboldt Bay 6 miles (9.7 km) south-southwest of downtown Eureka, at an elevation of 13 feet (4 m). The ZIP Code is 95537. The population was 276 at the 2010 census.
Before the arrival of European settlers, the area now known as Humboldt County was occupied by a number of indigenous peoples, including the Wiyot, Yurok, Hupa, Karuk, Chilula, Whilkut, and the southern Athabascans. Fields Landing is located within the original territory of the Wiyot tribe.
The first recorded entrance into Humboldt Bay occurred in 1806 by members of a Russian-American company from Sitka. The Josiah Gregg party arrived by land in December 1849, and by 1850 the first ships came to the bay bringing men seeking gold. As the Gold Rush subsided, the economy shifted to the use of the surrounding natural resources, mainly timber, salmon, and agricultural land. The area was a prime exporter of agricultural products from 1857 to 1900.
Fields Landing was named for Waterman Field, a resident of Humboldt County since 1861. He established the town in 1862. Field owned 160 acres in what is currently known as Fields Landing. Waterman Field built a dock there to ship his farm products and the name "Fields Landing" was derived from this landing place for ships.
Fort Humboldt was built in 1853 to protect settlers from retaliatory attacks and keep peace between the settlers and the natives was a failure, as the garrison did neither successfully. Indians were enslaved under the terms of the 1850 "Act for the Government and Protection of Indians" that provided legal basis for the continued Californio practice of capturing and using Native people as forced workers, particularly that of young women and children, which was carried on as a legal business enterprise. Intrusion of professional hunters and settlers and their herds of cattle and pigs into the hunting and gathering areas of the natives in the interior led the reduction of their food supplies and native resistance to this began the Bald Hills War. Development around the bay, disease, and the February 26, 1860 Indian Island Massacre, and consequences of the Bald Hills War, led to decimation of the peaceful Wiyot reducing their numbers from 3,000 to less than 100 survivors by 1865.
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