Bay Settlements
About 80,000 people reside on the shore of the bay, the largest Pacific coastal population center north of San Francisco in the contiguous United States (as neither Portland nor Seattle are located oceanside on the Pacific Coast). There are at least 20 named settlements on the coastal plain around the bay estuary; most of these are unincorporated suburbs of the City of Eureka.
Settlements located on or near the bay, listed clockwise from the north side of the bay entrance:
- Fairhaven
- Samoa
- Manila
- Arcata
- Sunny Brae
- Bayside
- Eureka
- Indianola (includes Hidden Valley)
- Freshwater
- Myrtletown
- Cutten
- Ridgewood
- Pine Hill
- Bayview
- Elk River
- Humboldt Hill
- King Salmon
- Fields Landing
- Hookton
- Table Bluff
Read more about this topic: Humboldt Bay
Famous quotes containing the words bay and/or settlements:
“Baltimore lay very near the immense protein factory of Chesapeake Bay, and out of the bay it ate divinely. I well recall the time when prime hard crabs of the channel species, blue in color, at least eight inches in length along the shell, and with snow-white meat almost as firm as soap, were hawked in Hollins Street of Summer mornings at ten cents a dozen.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizens is certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)