Spyrock, California

Spyrock, California
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 39°52′36″N123°26′38″W / 39.87667°N 123.44389°W / 39.87667; -123.44389
Country	United States
State	California
County	Mendocino County
Elevation [1]	259 m (850 ft)

Spyrock (formerly, Spy Rock) is an unincorporated community of ranches in Mendocino County, California. ^{[1] [2]} It is located around Spyrock Road, which runs east of Highway 101 to the Eel River and Northwestern Pacific Railroad. ^{[3] [2]}

It is named after Spy Rock, a 540 feet (160 m) landmark hill on the east side of the river, and The Wildlands Conservancy operates the 5,832-acre (2,360 ha) Spyrock Reserve in the area. ^{[4] [5]}

A post office operated at Spyrock from 1910 to 1911, and from 1915 to 1967. ^[6] The currently closed Spy Rock Elementary School located on Spy Rock Road is in Laytonville Unified school district, ^[7] although Spy Rock previously had its own school district. ^[8]

There was a station on the railroad named Spy Rock which until 1914 was named Redwine. ^[9]

In 1982, a Petroglyph site beside Spy Rock Road was investigated which provided the first evidence of complex rock art boulders in the western United States. ^{[10] [11]}

The Spy Rock Road album by The Lookouts was named after the road by Larry Livermore who lived in Spy Rock in the 1980s. ^[2]

Spy Rock features prominently in the 2021 Hulu docuseries Sasquatch.

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Spyrock, California
2. Larry Livermore (June 4, 2013). Spy Rock Memories. ISBN   9780989196307.
3. DeLorme California Atlas & Gazetteer (2008) Yarmouth, Maine p.47 ISBN   0-89933-383-4
4. "Let's Get Antiquated". The Press Democrat. September 19, 1971. p. 55. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
5. "Spy Rock", Santa Ana Register, p. 6, August 29, 1976, Leisure supplement, retrieved April 22, 2021
6. Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, California: Word Dancer Press. p. 149. ISBN   1-884995-14-4.
7. "Spy Rock Elementary - School Directory Details (CA Dept of Education)". www.cde.ca.gov. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
8. "Spyrock School District". Ukiah Dispatch Democrat. April 13, 1900. p. 5. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
9. "Redwine to be Renamed Spy Rock". Ukiah Daily Journal. August 21, 1914. p. 7. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
10. Mark Gary; Dan Foster (1990), "Mendocino County and Rock Art Conservation" (PDF), Society for California Archaeology Newsletter, vol. 24, no. 3, Society for California Archaeology
11. Dainel G. Foster, "A Note on CA-MEN-1912 The Spyrock Road Site, Mendocino County, California.pdf", San Diego Museum of Man Rock Art Papers, San Diego Museum: 51–56