Coordinates: 40°17′45″N123°49′31″W / 40.29583°N 123.82528°W
A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position and two or three of the numbers represent a horizontal position; alternatively, a geographic position may be expressed in a combined three-dimensional Cartesian vector. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation. To specify a location on a plane requires a map projection.
| Fruitland | |
|---|---|
| Unincorporated community | |
  Fruitland Location in California  Fruitland Fruitland (the US) | |
| Coordinates: 40°17′45″N123°49′31″W / 40.29583°N 123.82528°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Humboldt County |
| Elevation [1] | 1,004 ft (306 m) |
Fruitland (formerly Elk Prairie ) [2] is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. [1] It is located 6 miles (10 kilometers) east-southeast of Weott, [2] at an elevation of 1,004 feet (306 m). [1]
Elk Prairie is a former settlement in Humboldt County, California. It was located 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Camp Grant and adjacent to Fruitland, California.
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.
Humboldt County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 132,646. The county seat is Eureka.
A post office operated at Fruitland from 1890 to 1934. [2] The first settlers of Fruitland were a colony of immigrants from the Netherlands who planted orchards [2] sponsored by David Page Cutten, the namesake of Cutten, CA, approximately 37 mi (60 km) northwest of Fruitland. The isolation of this colony in a time when there was little adequate long-distance transportation ultimately led to the dissolution of the colony's fruit market. [3]
An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs that is maintained for food production. Orchards comprise fruit- or nut-producing trees which are generally grown for commercial production. Orchards are also sometimes a feature of large gardens, where they serve an aesthetic as well as a productive purpose. A fruit garden is generally synonymous with an orchard, although it is set on a smaller non-commercial scale and may emphasize berry shrubs in preference to fruit trees. Most temperate-zone orchards are laid out in a regular grid, with a grazed or mown grass or bare soil base that makes maintenance and fruit gathering easy.
