Birds Landing, California

Birds Landing, California
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 38°7′58″N121°52′15″W / 38.13278°N 121.87083°W / 38.13278; -121.87083 [1]
Country	United States
State	California
County	Solano
Government
•  Senate	Mark DeSaulnier (D)
•  Assembly	Nancy Skinner (D)
•  U. S. Congress	Kevin Kiley (R) [2]
Elevation [1]	52 ft (16 m)
Population  (2000)
• Total	130
Time zone	UTC-8 (PST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code	94512
Area code	707

Birds Landing (also Bird's Landing) is an unincorporated community in southern Solano County, California, United States. It lies at the intersection of Collinsville and Montezuma Hills Roads, southeast of the city of Fairfield, the county seat of Solano County. Situated just north of the Sacramento River, the community is located midway between Sacramento and San Francisco. ^[3] Birds Landing has its own ZIP code (94512) ^[4] but presently no post office; the previous post office closed in 2001. ^[5]

History

Birds Landing in 1953

Onetime shipping point for John Bird, who had a storage and commission business. ^[6]

Demographics

The population was 130 in 2000; there were 66 men and 64 women. The generational makeup was 7 under five years, 8 five to nine years, 10 ten to fourteen, 11 fifteen to nineteen, 13 twenty to twenty-four, 10 twenty-five to thirty-four, 18 thirty-five to forty-four, 24 forty-five to fifty-four, 8 fifty-five to fifty-nine, 6 sixty to sixty-four, 11 sixty-four to seventy-four, 4 seventy-five to eighty-four, and 0 over the age of eighty-five. The median age was 41.3. Of the 100 over the age of eighteen, 53 were male and 47 were female. 92 were twenty-one and over. 15 were over the age of sixty-five, with 8 males and 7 females. The average owner-owned home housed 2.45 people, compared to 3.62 for renter-occupied homes. ^[7]

47% of the population spoke English as their primary language while 53% did not; of those 53%, 29% spoke Spanish and 24% spoke "Other Indic languages". ^[8]

Gallery

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  Birds Landing, California
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  Bird and Dinkelspiel Store in Birds Landing, California
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  Shirley's Tavern in Birds Landing, California

See also

• Shiloh Wind Power Plant

References

1. "Birds Landing". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. "California's 3rd Congressional District - Representatives & District Map". Civic Impulse, LLC. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
3. Rand McNally. The Road Atlas '08. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2008, p. 12-13.
4. ZIP code Lookup Archived June 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
5. Bowen, Jerry, "Once flourishing, town now echoes history". Retrieved November 22, 2014
6. Gudde, Erwin G. (1998). California place names : the origin and etymology of current geographical names (4th ed., rev. and enl. ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p.  36. ISBN   0520213165.
7. 94512 entry, Relocation Now, access date, U.S. Census 2000, July 20, 2008
8. 94512 entry Archived 2008-08-01 at the Wayback Machine , American Fact Finder/U.S. Census 2000 (at MLA Data Center), access date July 20, 2008