Bird's Landing, California
History
Onetime shipping point for John Bird, who had a storage and commission business.
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.
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".
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
References
- ^ "Birds Landing". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "California's 3rd Congressional District - Representatives & District Map". Civic Impulse, LLC. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
- ^ Rand McNally. The Road Atlas '08. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2008, p. 12-13.
- ^ ZIP code Lookup Archived June 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bowen, Jerry, "Once flourishing, town now echoes history". Retrieved November 22, 2014
- ^ 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.
- ^ 94512 entry, Relocation Now, access date, U.S. Census 2000, July 20, 2008
- ^ 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