Fieldbrook

History

A post office operated in Fieldbrook from 1902 to 1932.

Geography

Fieldbrook is located on California's North Coast, approximately north of San Francisco and south of the Oregon state line. Located on the edge of dense redwood forest, the area was once home to thriving lumber companies. Fieldbrook is east of the larger, unincorporated, seaside town of McKinleyville and the Arcata-Eureka Airport, approximately northeast of the harbor city of Arcata, and about north of the city of Eureka, the Humboldt County seat. Fieldbrook is at the northern edge of the McKinleyville-Arcata-Eureka-Fortuna corridor along US Highway 101, where about eighty percent of Humboldt County's population lives and most of its businesses are located. The ZIP Code is 95519. The community is inside area code 707. Fieldbrook is located at the right-angle bend where Murray Road becomes Fieldbrook Road. In the mid-1990s, Fieldbrook was a stereotypical sleepy country hamlet, with junk cars sitting in weedy yards along the main road in one block and goats grazing alongside a church in the next. With the decline of the local timber industry, the increase of remote working professionals, and the emergence of the North Coast as a retirement destination, Fieldbrook with its mild weather (summer temperatures seldom exceed and winter nights rarely drop below has undergone gentrification. Sprawling ranch-style (single-story) homes on isolated lots wedged between timber tracts are selling for $500,000, and at least one timber tract has become a gated community. The few blocks of paved and unpaved roads that comprise Fieldbrook property include modest homes, an elementary school and two churches, as well as a general store, a winery and an apple orchard that host public events. Larger residences whose owners identify with the Fieldbrook community continue south along…

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Common Raven

  Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  18,016
• Song Sparrow

  Melospiza melodia (A.Wilson, 1810) · Aves
  17,921
• Black Phoebe

  Sayornis nigricans (Swainson, 1827) · Aves
  14,597
• Turkey Vulture

  Cathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  14,384
• Great Egret

  Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  11,014
• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  10,785
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  10,742
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  10,494

Largest nearby schools

• Arcata High
  High · Arcata · 1,052 students · 20.6:1 ratio
• McKinleyville High
  High · McKinleyville · 556 students · 17.9:1 ratio
• Pacific Union Elementary
  Elementary · Arcata · 537 students · 19.2:1 ratio
• Jacoby Creek
  Elementary · Bayside · 459 students · 24.2:1 ratio
• McKinleyville Middle
  Middle · McKinleyville · 360 students · 17.1:1 ratio
• Morris Elementary
  Elementary · McKinleyville · 292 students · 18.3:1 ratio
• Dow's Prairie Elementary
  Elementary · McKinleyville · 276 students · 18.4:1 ratio
• Arcata Elementary
  Elementary · Arcata · 262 students · 17.5:1 ratio

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