Navarro, California

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in California, United States}}

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| subdivision_name2 = Mendocino County

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Navarro (formerly known as Wendling) is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County in the U.S. state of California. It is located {{convert|18|mi|km|0}} west of Ukiah,{{California's Geographic Names|112}} at an elevation of {{convert|269|ft|}}. It may be reached via the east–west California State Route 128, which connects it to the Pacific coast to the west and to the Anderson Valley to the southeast.

History

A former town named Navarro, with approximately 1,000 people, was founded in the 1860s and located approximately {{convert|14|miles|}} to the west of the present town, at the mouth of the Navarro River in what is now Navarro River Redwoods State Park.{{citation|title=Preserving history on the Mendocino Coast|journal=The Press Democrat|url=http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100202/ARTICLES/100209888|first=Glenda|last=Anderson|date=February 2, 2010}}. A post office opened there in 1867. In 1902, the mill at the mouth of the river burned down, and the post office closed. A new mill was built that year by G. C. Wendling on the north fork of the Navarro River, at the present location of Navarro, and in 1905 the town of Wendling was founded around the mill. A post office was opened there in 1914. However, in 1916, the Wendling mill was bought by the Navarro Lumber Company, at which point Wendling became known as Navarro Mill, or, more simply, Navarro. To reduce confusion, the dwindling seaside town of Navarro became known as Old Navarro, Navarro Ridge, or Navarro-by-the-sea.{{citation|title=Anderson Valley|author=The Anderson Valley Historical Society|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2005|isbn=978-0-7385-3017-8|page=119}}.

The Fort Bragg and Southeastern Railroad connected Wendling (Navarro) with seaport facilities in Albion, California, from 1905 to 1930.{{cite book | author=Stindt, Fred A.| title=The Northwestern Pacific Railroad: Redwood Empire Route|edition=3rd| publisher=Fred A. Stindt| location=Kelseyville, California|year=1978| asin=B0007F4A2M| pages=44–45,54&91}}

In popular culture

Navarro appears in the 1998 post-apocalypse role-playing video game Fallout 2 as Camp Navarro, the primary mainland base of operations of the Enclave, the remnants of the United States government. In the 2010 post-apocalypse action-roleplaying video game Fallout: New Vegas, Camp Navarro serves an important role in the backstory of companion Arcade Gannon.

References

Category:Unincorporated communities in California

Category:Unincorporated communities in Mendocino County, California