113-770: Old Town Eureka (formally the Eureka Old Town Historic District ) in Eureka, California , is a historic district listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places . It is a 350-acre (1.4 km) area containing 154 buildings mostly from the Victorian era . The core of the district runs the length of First, Second, and Third Streets, between "C" and "M" Streets, and includes many types of architecture including Eastlake, Queen Ann, Greek Revival, Classical Revival, and Second Empire styles from
226-423: A 6.5 magnitude earthquake occurred about 33 miles (53 km) off shore from Eureka. After two seconds, it became a violent "jumper", making objects fly; the mostly vertical shocks from the ground led to broken windows in shops, overturned shelving in homes and stores, and damage to architectural detail on a number of historic buildings. Local hospitals treated mostly minor related injuries, and electrical power
339-661: A burgeoning cottage industry of hand-made creations, from glassware to wood-burning stoves, and a large variety of locally created art. Eureka's founding and livelihood was and remains linked to Humboldt Bay, the Pacific Ocean, and related industries, especially fishing. Salmon fisheries sprang up along the Eel River as early as 1851, and, within seven years, 2,000 barrels of cured fish and 50,000 pounds (23,000 kg) of smoked salmon were processed and shipped out of Humboldt Bay annually from processing plants on Eureka's wharf. In 1858,
452-523: A combination of geographic features and weather conditions which concealed the narrow bay entrance from view. Despite a well-documented 1806 sighting by Russian explorers, the bay was not definitively known by Europeans until an 1849 overland exploration provided a reliable accounting of the exact location of what is the second-largest bay in California. The timing of this discovery led to the May 13, 1850, founding of
565-630: A construct of the U.S. Census Bureau, which is synonymous with the County of Humboldt. As of the census of 2000, there were 26,128 people. The population density was 2,764.5 inhabitants per square mile (1,067.4/km ). There were 11,637 housing units at an average density of 1,231.3 units per square mile (475.4 units/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 88.5% White, 1.2% Black or African American, 4.2% Native American, 2.6% Asian, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 2.7% from other races, and 5.10% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race were 10.8% of
678-547: A few nights per year, and daytime temperatures for these days are typically mild temperatures ranging between 43–58 °F (6.1–14.4 °C). Eureka has never recorded an ice day, with the coldest daytime maximum being 34 °F (1 °C) in 1990. Between 1991 and 2020, the coldest daytime high of the year was 45 °F (7 °C) and the warmest night averaged 59 °F (15 °C). NOAA ’s weather station averages indicate only 0.18 in (4.6 mm) of rainfall in July, which
791-428: A fraction of that of English, for example. This fragment of Wiyot narration consists of two breath groups: the first contains five accent phrases, the second contains just one. The first accent phrase of the first breath group, kowa baktéthohlabił , carries the stress on the fourth syllable. The vowel of this 'culminative syllable', an 'e', carries an acute accent and is pronounced at a higher pitch than any other in
904-464: A mild 64 °F (17.8 °C). This phenomenon, together with cool breezes from the Pacific Ocean, keeps Eureka relatively cool and mild, while contrasting with inland areas in relative proximity to Humboldt Bay, which are prone to extreme temperatures that often exceed 100 °F (37.8 °C). This causes frequent temperature differences between Eureka and nearby inland areas during summer and early fall of 30 to 40 °F (17 to 22 °C). Despite
1017-574: A nationally recognized Old Town Historic District . Eureka is home to California's oldest zoo, the Sequoia Park Zoo . The Wiyot people lived in Jaroujiji ( Wiyot for 'where you sit and rest'), now known as Eureka, for thousands of years before European arrival . Their traditional coastal homeland ranges from the Little River in the north to Bear River Ridge in the south, including
1130-609: A phonological cluster, are combined due to morphological construction, the general tendency is for the second element to be eliminated. This is not true in the case of a laryngeal combining with a consonant cluster, in that order. In such a situation, the initial laryngeal element is eliminated. Wiyot is a highly synthetic , agglutinative language. Words or, more specifically, accent phrases, are formed by joining stems and affixes . Wiyot employs both prefixation and suffixation, meaning that affixes appear both before and after stems. Both verb and noun forms are constructed this way, though
1243-774: A result of the Eureka Community Plan of 1995 in attempt to bring locals close to centers of recreation and encourage community interaction. The city then gives way to hills and mountains of the rugged coast range, which quickly exceed 2,000 feet (610 m) in elevation. Eureka is more or less on the same latitude as Atlantic cities New York City and Porto in Portugal along with the Mediterranean city of Naples in Italy , all of whom have much warmer summers in spite of also being on coastlines. By comparison, New York City's climate
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#17328560753261356-416: A subordinative derivational suffix. Pronouns from this second set tend to replace the initial consonants of the themes they are affixed to. Thus, in the noun form khápt , meaning 'your teeth', the second person possessive prefix for inalienable nouns kh- replaces the initial consonant of wapt , 'teeth'. Within the second set, there is also an indefinite or absolutive prefix b . The third set
1469-404: A suffix added to a noun theme, expresses that the inflected noun belongs to another nominal concept- a person, perhaps. Nouns can also be subordinated to an indefinite nominal concept using the suffix -ik . The definite subordinative suffixes are -ahl , -ihl and ohl . An example of a definite subordinate inflection is the noun form waptáhl , meaning 'his teeth', which consists of
1582-464: A time or place in which a verbal phrase occurs. For example, dótok is a principal nominal form meaning 'large, longish object'; kíłi is a modifying nominal form meaning 'right now'. Pronominal phrases further elucidate verbal complexes, and can be employed as noun forms themselves. hinód , for example, can take the nominalizing affix -ał and be treated as a nominal phrase. These elements are combined relatively freely to form sentences;
1695-443: A traditional grid that generally radiates toward the points of the compass. Most post-1970 houses were built in formerly clear cut forested areas. The transition between the official city limits and smaller unincorporated areas is mostly not discernible. Eastern areas including secluded developments on a golf course among or in close proximity to extensive second-growth forest have more recently developed. These new houses were built as
1808-403: A vowel. This vowel may be long or short. If the vowel is short, the syllable must end in the same consonant that begins the next syllable. Therefore, all non-final syllables are heavy, acquiring either a CVV or CVC structure. Word final syllables may or may not be heavy. These syllable-final consonants are lengthened in speech, but do not appear as doubled letters in transcription. For example, in
1921-513: A warmer absolute maximum temperature than both the two high summer months of July and August. The absolute maximum temperature of July is merely 77 °F (25 °C) in spite of the high sun strength. The two warmest nights measured in Eureka were both during winter, as January 18, 1981, recorded a low of 63 °F (17 °C), tying a February 26, 1980, record. In addition, Eureka has a very short and milder range of temperatures compared to most of
2034-446: Is 283 miles (455 km) north of San Francisco and 315 mi (507 km) northwest of Sacramento . The city marina is on one of three islands at a narrow point on the 13-mile-long (21 km) bay and increases in elevation slightly as it spreads north, south, and especially to the east. The city gently encroaches at least two miles (3.2 km) eastward into primarily Redwood and Douglas-fir second growth forests. The city has
2147-510: Is a city and the county seat of Humboldt County , located on the North Coast of California . The city is located on U.S. Route 101 on the shores of Humboldt Bay , 270 miles (435 km) north of San Francisco and 100 miles (161 km) south of the Oregon border. At the 2020 census , the population of the city was 26,512 and the population of the greater Eureka area was 48,119. Eureka
2260-530: Is administered by the Office of the City Manager. The Eureka City Council regularly meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month at 5:30 pm for closed session, and 6:30 pm for open session. Open sessions are open to the public. Eureka is in the 2nd Senate District , represented by Democrat Mike McGuire , and the 2nd Assembly District , represented by Democrat Jim Wood . Federally, Eureka
2373-453: Is also the most common third person inflectional suffix in Wiyot, and both the nominalizing and inflectional suffixes appear in the same position. This gives rise to some degree of morphological ambiguity in many cases.) bacawáłiksił is a nominalized form meaning 'swan'; it is derived from the homonymous verb meaning 'he makes it dry'. bacigadarawił means 'robin', and is derived from
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#17328560753262486-617: Is an Algic language spoken by the Wiyot people of Humboldt Bay , California . The language's last native speaker, Della Prince, died in 1962. Wiyot, along with its geographical neighbor, the Yurok language , were first identified as relatives of the Algonquian languages by Edward Sapir in 1913, though this classification was disputed for decades in what came to be known as the Ritwan controversy . Due to
2599-607: Is far more continental than Eureka's, despite both cities being located around the 41st parallel and near the ocean. Eureka has a mild, temperate cool-summer mediterranean climate ( Köppen climate classification : Csb ). Due to the influence of the Pacific Ocean and being on the shoreline of the cold-water Humboldt Bay , its temperatures are cooler than those of a typical mediterranean climate. Winters are mild and rainy, and summers are mild, cool, and dry. The average high in December,
2712-535: Is in California's 2nd congressional district , represented by Democrat Jared Huffman . [REDACTED] U.S. Route 101 is the major north and south highway, which connects Eureka to the rest of the North Coast region. The highway connects to Oregon , located approximately 100 miles (161 km) to the north, and San Francisco, over 250 miles (402 km) to the south. The highway follows city streets through
2825-402: Is limited largely to kinship terms and the word for 'nose'. In the third set, the second person possessive is articulated by aspirating the initial phoneme of the noun theme. Thus, čul , meaning 'maternal aunt', becomes čhul [čʰul] , 'your maternal aunt'. There is no marking of a first person possessive in this category, and, as in the second set, a third person possessive is indicated by
2938-421: Is located to the north of Eureka. The Yurok Tribe's language revitalization program is seen by many as the most successful of its kind in California, and as of 2013 , Eureka High School has the largest Yurok language program of any school. For nearly 300 years after 1579, European exploration of the coast of what would become northern California repeatedly missed definitively locating Humboldt Bay because of
3051-490: Is often dropped in spoken Wiyot. khuhlóš , meaning 'your strawberries', includes the second person pronoun from this first set, khuh- . The second set applies only to inalienable nouns, or nouns that must be possessed, such as body parts. Curiously, the words for 'wood' and 'enemy' belong in this category of Wiyot nouns, as well. The set only distinguishes two persons: first- d- ; second- kh- . Third person possession of inalienable nouns tends to be conveyed using
3164-569: Is performed using a device of some kind. Instrumental and benefactive affixes directly encode for the subject of the verb and thus do not appear with inflectional affixes for subject. Therefore, the most inflectional affixes a verb can possibly take is three. Inflectional affixes can be either terminal or nonterminal in nature. Terminal affixes, when added to verb or noun themes, can complete words, while nonterminal affixes require additional affixation. The noun form rakhóhwalił , meaning 'he/she laughs at me', contains two inflectional affixes that modify
3277-525: Is the final syllable of the accent phrase. In such a situation, the accent phrase would end on a high pitch. The vowel of the culminative syllable bears either an acute or grave accent, the latter indicating a high pitch, and the former a high pitch which rapidly falls. The grave accent appears only when the culminative syllable is the final syllable of a breath group, which are groups of accent phrases. The ends of breath groups are marked by periods, and are notably lower in relative pitch. Accent phrases towards
3390-421: Is the largest coastal city between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon , and the westernmost city of more than 25,000 residents in the 48 contiguous states. The proximity to the sea causes the city to have an extremely maritime climate with very small annual temperature differences and seasons mainly being defined by the rainy winters and dry summers , whereas nearby inland areas are much hotter in summer. It
3503-632: Is the regional center for government, health care, trade, and the arts on the North Coast north of the San Francisco Bay Area . Greater Eureka, one of California's major commercial fishing ports, is the location of the largest deep-water port between San Francisco and Coos Bay , a stretch of about 500 miles (805 km). The headquarters of both the Six Rivers National Forest and the North Coast Redwoods District of
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3616-402: Is used with the inalienable nouns and kinship terms mentioned above. 'On your teeth' is expressed hola wáptihyam ( -la appears after all prefixes that are followed by b or w ). There is a single vocative prefix, ho- , that occurs with kinship terms. It appears affixed to ko , meaning 'mother', in the form hóko . Wiyot personal pronouns are generally used to emphasize
3729-461: Is well within the mediterranean range, only with rainier winters, cooler and milder air than a typical mediterranean climate. Winter temperatures instead are similar to many climates found in Southern Europe from which basin the climate type is named. The area experiences coastal fog throughout the year, especially during summer on the coast when temperatures in the city remain consistently around
3842-493: The California State Parks System are in Eureka. As entrepôt for hundreds of lumber mills that once existed in the area, the city played a leading role in the historic West Coast lumber trade . The entire city is a state historic landmark, which has hundreds of significant Victorian homes, including the nationally recognized Carson Mansion , and the city has retained its original 19th-century commercial core as
3955-536: The Christmas flood of 1964 , which severely damaged the region, may not be reflected in records listed herein. Snowfall on the coast happens only on rare occasions, averaging 0.2 in (0.51 cm) as of the 1981–2010 normals, but only five years during that period received measurable snowfall. The most snowfall in one month was 6.9 in (18 cm) in January 1907. See or edit raw graph data . The population of
4068-511: The Wiyot Tribe 's orthography, and their IPA equivalents in brackets. Teeter's orthography and the Wiyot Tribe's orthography are separated by a slash, and only one grapheme is listed without a slash where both orthographies use the same grapheme. Teeter's orthography is used in this article for examples. Wiyot syllables always begin with consonants or consonant clusters, which are followed by
4181-418: The contiguous US , with the all-time highest and lowest temperatures recorded in Eureka being only 87 °F (30.6 °C) on October 26, 1993, September 2, 2017, and September 28, 2020, and 20 °F (−6.7 °C) on January 14, 1888, respectively. On average, the highest temperature seen throughout the entire year is only 79 °F (26.1 °C), one of the coolest in the contiguous US, while on average
4294-526: The "outside" world had changed dramatically after more than half a century of stage rides or treacherous steamship passage through the Humboldt Bar and on the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco. The building of the Eureka Inn coincided with the opening of the new road to San Francisco. As a result of immense civic pride during this early-20th-century era of expansion, Eureka officially nicknamed itself "Queen City of
4407-460: The 1850s to the 20th century. Though not officially within the district, the Carson Mansion commands the highest elevation at the eastern edge of the district. The city began as an 1850 settlement on the edge of Humboldt Bay . Developers and settlers planned for Eureka to aid in the provision of miners working inland to the east. By 1865, the central core of what would become Eureka's "Old Town"
4520-645: The 19th century, has been restored and has become a lively arts center. The Old Town area has been declared an Historic District by the National Register of Historic Places . The district is made up of over 150 buildings, which in total represents much of Eureka's original 19th-century core commercial center. This nexus of culture behind the redwood curtain still contains much of its Victorian architecture , which, if not maintained for original use as commercial buildings or homes, have been transformed into scores of unique lodgings, restaurants, and small shops featuring
4633-486: The 50th parallel. The seasonal temperature variation is very small; the difference between the August average of 58.5 °F (14.7 °C) and the December average of 47.8 °F (8.8 °C) is only 10.7 °F (5.9 °C), about equal to the diurnal temperature variation . Eureka is unique among mid-latitude climates in the northern hemisphere in that in more than 135 years of recorded temperatures, February has measured
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4746-506: The City of Eureka voted unanimously to return 45 acres (18 ha) of Tuluwat Island to the Wiyot Tribe as an act of reparation , representing a historic victory for the Land Back movement. Eureka's first post office opened in 1853 just as the town began to carve its grid plan into the edge of a forest it would ultimately consume to feed the building of San Francisco and points beyond. Many of
4859-615: The Eureka Slough (mouth of the Freshwater Creek). [REDACTED] State Route 255 is an alternate route of U.S. 101 between Eureka and the nearby city of Arcata , running along the western shore of Humboldt Bay. It begins in the downtown area at U.S. 101 and proceeds north along R Street towards the Samoa Bridge and the community of Samoa . Wiyot language Wiyot (also Wishosk ) or Soulatluk (lit. 'your jaw')
4972-491: The Humboldt County Office of Education. St. Joseph Hospital is the largest private employer in Eureka. The City of Eureka has a mayor-council system of governance. Primary power lies with the five council members, divided into five wards. The mayor has the power to appoint, as well as ceremonial duties, though the job includes presiding over council meetings and meeting visiting dignitaries. Official city business
5085-583: The Ultimate West." The tourism industry, lodging to support it, and related marketing had been born. The timber economy of Eureka is part of the Pacific Northwest timber economy which rises and falls with boom-and-bust economic times. In Eureka, both the timber industry and commercial fishing declined after the Second World War. The Columbus Day Storm of 1962 downed trees and caused a surplus in
5198-633: The West, both before and after the Chinese Exclusion Act . Economic downturns resulting in competition for jobs fed sinophobia and violent actions against Chinese immigrants, especially on the Pacific coast. In February 1885, Eureka City Councilman David Kendall was caught in the crossfire of two rival Chinese gangs and killed. A group of 600 White vigilantes forcibly and permanently evicted all 480 Chinese residents of Eureka's Chinatown. Among those who guarded
5311-401: The actual entities being signified are rarely named. Noun and pronoun phrases serve to provide this information. The transitivity of the verb complex determines the classes of noun forms that may occur in the sentence; nominal phrases serve to specify subject and object information, so intransitive verbs , which lack inflection for object, would not appear in combination with a nominal phrase for
5424-675: The area was the 7.2 M w event on November 8, 1980 . The larger earthquakes can pose a tsunami threat to coastal areas. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 14.5 square miles (38 km ), of which 9.4 square miles (24 km ) is land and 5.1 square miles (13 km ) or 35.07% is water. Eureka is situated within California's Redwood Empire region which includes Pacific Ocean coast, Humboldt Bay , and several rivers in addition to Redwood National and State Parks and Humboldt Redwoods State Park . The location of Eureka on U.S. 101
5537-579: The area. Commercial Pacific oyster aquaculture in Humboldt Bay produced an average of 7,600,000 pounds (3,400,000 kg) of oysters from 1956 to 1965 an average of 844,444 pounds (383,033 kg) per year. In 2004, only 600,000 pounds (270,000 kg) were harvested. Oysters and oyster seed continue to be exported from Humboldt Bay. The value of the oysters and spawn is more than $ 6 million per year. Consolidation of buyers and landing facilities resulted in local vulnerability to unexpected events, leading
5650-414: The average family size was 2.93. In the city, the population dispersal was 22.4% under the age of 18, 11.6% from 18 to 24, 28.9% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 13.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.7 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 25,849, and
5763-548: The city jail during the height of the sinophobic tension was James Gillett , who went on to become Governor of California . The anti-Chinese ordinance was repealed in 1959. Completion of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad in 1914 provided the local lumber industry with an alternative to ships for transport of its millions of board feet of lumber to reach markets in San Francisco and beyond. It also provided
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#17328560753265876-422: The city limits and at least 50 more in nearby Fields Landing , which is part of Greater Eureka. Area catches historically include, among other species, salmon, tuna, Dungeness crab, and shrimp, with historic annual total fishing landings totaling about 36,000,000 pounds (16,000,000 kg) in 1981. Racist views of Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century led to violent attacks on them by White settlers across
5989-825: The city to obtain grant funding for and complete the Fishermen's Terminal on the waterfront which will provide fish handling, marketing, and public spaces. The area regularly experiences large earthquakes as it is situated on the southern end the Cascadia subduction zone and near the San Andreas Fault , which interface around the Mendocino Triple Junction . On December 20, 2022, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Ferndale, California in Humboldt County, United States at 10:34:25 UTC, or 2:34 a.m. PST. On January 9, 2010,
6102-728: The city was 27,191 at the 2010 census , up from 26,128 at the 2000 census , representing a 4.1% increase, and the population of Greater Eureka was 45,034 at the 2010 Census, up from 43,452 at the 2000 census, representing a 3.6% increase. According to a report by the City of Eureka, the Greater Eureka area minimally includes the unincorporated adjacent or nearby neighborhoods and Census Defined Populated Areas of Bayview, Cutten, Elk River, Freshwater, Humboldt Hill, Indianola, Myrtletown, Pine Hill, Ridgewood Heights, and Rosewood, all of which have Eureka addresses, postal zip codes and Eureka-specific telephone numbers. The Greater Eureka area makes up
6215-436: The city, with flow and cross-traffic controlled by traffic signals. Highway 101 enters Eureka from the south as Broadway. As it reaches the downtown area, it splits into a one-way couplet composed of 4th Street and 5th Street. On the north side of the city, northbound and southbound rejoin at the northeast side before the highway becomes a restricted (safety corridor) expressway (to Arcata and points beyond) as double bridges cross
6328-505: The common coastal fog, Eureka enjoys on average about 55% possible sunshine per year, about on par with cities such as Calgary , Portland , New York City and Chicago . Annual precipitation averages 40.3 in (1,024 mm). Measurable precipitation falls on an average of 127.5 days each year, concentrated heavily from October to April. On average, December is the wettest month, averaging over 8 in (203.2 mm) of precipitation, virtually all of it rain. The wettest "rain year"
6441-593: The coolest month, is 55.0 °F (12.8 °C), while the average high temperature in August, the warmest month, is 64.3 °F (17.9 °C), which is very mild and cool, respectively, for an area at such a southerly latitude. Eureka's average summer temperatures are much cooler than New York City and Istanbul which lie on the same latitude (and its average winter temperatures are also milder than those two cities); and are similar to those of Southeast Alaska , Scotland or Tierra del Fuego in southern Argentina and Chile , which lie well above
6554-620: The densely settled core" of up to 50,000 in population. The bayside communities of Manila, Samoa, and Fairhaven (all on the Samoa Peninsula), and King Salmon and Fields Landing (both located south of the city), and communities listed above, with the exception of Elk River and Freshwater, are shown to be part of the Eureka Urban Cluster. Eureka is the largest city of the Eureka-Arcata-Fortuna Micropolitan Area ,
6667-659: The derivational affix -ohw and become rakhohw- , or 'laugh at'. Thus, -ohw serves to create an impersonal transitive verb theme with rakh- as the stem. There are many derivational affixes, most of which correspond to a complicated set of rules: stems can belong to one of eleven categories that determines which set of derivational affixes it may take. Therefore, to form an impersonal transitive verb theme like rakhohw , for example, there are 10 other possible affixes that occur with stems from other categories. Furthermore, certain derivational affixes occur only when affixed to specific stems. Inflectional affixes encode
6780-407: The domestic timber market, which caused increased shipping to foreign markets. The log trade with Japan and other Pacific Rim nations increased. Despite many rumors to the contrary, little of this wood returned to U.S. markets. In 1989, the U.S. changed log export laws, permitting lower-cost timber from public lands to be exported as raw logs overseas to help balance the federal budget. After 1990,
6893-422: The early 1900s, shipment of products occurred by trucks, trains, and ships from Eureka, Humboldt Bay, and other points in the region, but Eureka remained the busy center of all this activity for over 120 years. These factors and others made Eureka a significant city in early California state history. A bustling commercial district with ornate Victorian-style buildings rose in proximity to the waterfront, reflecting
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#17328560753267006-401: The end of a breath group follow the same pattern of gradual lengthening and pitch increase, though the relative pitch is lower with respect to the preceding accent phrases. Breath groups end with a general weakening of articulatory force, which is followed by a noticeable interval of silence. Despite the intricacies of pitch involved in Wiyot, the total pitch range of the spoken language is only
7119-461: The enormous geographical separation of Wiyot and Yurok from all other Algonquian languages, the validity of their genetic link was hotly contested by leading Americanist linguists; as Ives Goddard put it, the issue "has profound implications for the prehistory of North America". However, by the 1950s, the genetic relationship between the Algonquian languages and Wiyot and Yurok had been established to
7232-540: The entire coastline of Humboldt Bay, stretching inland to the mountains. The Wiyot people are particularly known for their basketry and fishery management. An extensive collection of intricate basketry of the area's indigenous groups exists in the Clarke Historical Museum in Old Town Eureka . The Yurok people share linguistic and cultural practices with the Wiyot people, and their traditional territory
7345-473: The example hi walúy, hinód , meaning 'we saw'. Here, walúy is inflected for an indefinite third person, though hinód unambiguously expresses 'we'. Verbs are the core of Wiyot grammar, and verbal phrases are the most important part of Wiyot sentences. Verb complexes- inflected verb themes combined with syntactic affixes- form sentences along with nominal phrases. Verb phrases themselves frequently encode subject, object and instrumental information, but
7458-459: The final vowel, which starts on a high pitch that rapidly falls. This articulation is indicated with a grave accent over the 'i'. These accents only appears when the culminative syllable is the last syllable of a breath group, as in this example. Teeter recorded many morphonemic processes that Wiyot words and phrases undergo. A few are listed below. Aspirated stops, such as [pʰ] and [kʰ] , undergo deaspiration when in word-final position. Thus, in
7571-486: The first immigrants who arrived as prospectors were also lumbermen, and the vast potential for industry on the bay was soon realized, especially as many hopeful gold miners realized the difficulty and infrequency of striking it rich in the mines. By 1854, after only four years since the founding, seven of nine mills processing timber into marketable lumber on Humboldt Bay were within Eureka. A year later, 140 lumber schooners operated in and out of Humboldt Bay moving lumber from
7684-471: The first of many ships built in Eureka was launched, beginning an industry that spanned scores of years. The bay is also the site of the West Coast's largest oyster farming operations, which began its commercial status in the nineteenth century. Eureka is the home port to more than 100 fishing vessels (with an all-time high of over 400 in 1981) in two modern marinas which can berth approximately 400 boats within
7797-414: The first or only stems in a given word. Most stems belong to this class. thig- , for example, is the initial stem in the above-mentioned compound thigatol- . All initial stems start with a consonant. Medial stems may not appear as the initial or sole stem in a word, and therefore must be combined with an initial. Medials, such as -atol , always begin with a vowel. Medial stems may also occur as
7910-643: The first safe land route between San Francisco and Eureka for people to venture to the Redwood Empire. As a result, Eureka's population of 7,300 swelled to 15,000 within ten years. By 1922, the Redwood Highway was completed, providing for the first reliable, direct overland route for automobiles from San Francisco. By 1931, the Eureka Street Railway operated fifteen streetcars over twelve miles (19 km) of track. Eureka's transportation connection to
8023-444: The global log market declined, and exports fell at the same time as Pacific Northwest log prices increased; leading buyers to seek less expensive logs from Canada and the southern United States . Debate continues among four stakeholders: timber owners, domestic processors, consumers and communities, on the impact of log export on the local economy. During the span of 1991 to 2001, timber harvest peaked in 1997. The local timber market
8136-473: The great prosperity experienced during this era. Hundreds of these Victorian homes remain today, of which many are totally restored and a few have always remained in their original elegance and splendor. The representation of these homes in Eureka, grouped with those in nearby Arcata and the Victorian village of Ferndale , are of considerable importance to the overall development of Victorian architecture built in
8249-412: The homonymous verb meaning 'he is dry on the eyes'. A less ambiguous, more obviously derived example employs the nominalizing suffix ihla : táthotawihla , meaning 'football', is the nominalized form of the verb meaning 'it goes with a kicking motion'. Nouns are inflected for four categories: the subordinative, possessive , locative and vocative . Subordinative inflection, indicated by
8362-595: The largest urban settlement on the Pacific Coast between San Francisco and Portland. This area is similar to what the U.S. Census officially defines as the Eureka UC (urban cluster), which is a "densely settled core of census tracts and/or census blocks that meet minimum population density requirements, along with adjacent territory containing non-residential urban land uses as well as territory with low population density included to link outlying densely settled territory with
8475-515: The latter decades of the twentieth century. Today, the major industries are tourism, timber (in value), and healthcare and services (in number of jobs). As a part of the Emerald Triangle , Eureka is known for the sale of cannabis and as a center for cannabis tourism . Major employers today in Eureka include the following governmental entities: College of the Redwoods , The County of Humboldt, and
8588-413: The limited corpus of Wiyot text indicates a wide variety of syntactic organizations. Most Wiyot sentences are in the indicative mood , as are all of the examples given below. kwháli yał, koto walùy. Literally translated, the sentences means 'but they don't see it here', though the verb form is here employed idiomatically to mean 'grow', giving a translation of 'but it doesn't grow here'. kwháli yał
8701-540: The lower numbers appearing earlier in the verb form. Some examples of preverbs include: The position numbers fix the relative positions of these preverbs when they appear in combination. Thus, to create a perfect cessative construction using the inflected verb theme tikwátolił , ła would have to precede bu to form łabu tikwátolił , 'He had just come down'. Preverbs, in addition to aspect, often convey tense and mood . Wiyot nouns are often derived from verbs, and typically serve to fill out and expound upon
8814-495: The lowest temperature seen in the year (most often occurring at night) is only a similarly moderate 29 °F (−1.7 °C), yielding a very short and mild temperature range of about 50 °F (28 °C) throughout the year. Additionally, Eureka remains the only city on the West Coast of the continental United States to have never recorded a temperature of 90 °F (32.2 °C). Temperatures drop to freezing or below only on
8927-550: The lowest were in 2001 with 9.4 million lb (4.3 million kg). After 1990 regulatory, economic, and other events led to a contraction of the local commercial fleet. In 1991, the Woodley Island marina opened, providing docking facilities for much of Eureka's commercial and recreational fleet. Many species are considered to be overfished. Recreational fishing has increased over time. Fifty percent of recreational fishermen using local boats are tourists from outside
9040-422: The median income for a family was $ 33,438. Males had a median income of $ 28,706 versus $ 22,038 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 16,174. About 15.8% of families and 23.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 29.6% of those under the age of 18 and 11.1% of those 65 and older. The 2010 United States Census reported that Eureka had a population of 27,191. The population density
9153-483: The mills to booming cities along the Pacific coast. By the time the charter for Eureka was granted in 1856, busy mills inside the city had a daily production capacity of 220,000 board feet. This level of production, which would grow significantly and continue for more than a century, secured Eureka as the "timber capital" of California. Eureka was at the apex of rapid growth of the lumber industry because of its location between huge coast redwood forests and its control of
9266-437: The nation. The magnificent Carson Mansion on 2nd and M Streets is perhaps the most spectacular Victorian in the nation. The home was built between 1884 and 1886 by renowned 19th-century architects Newsom and Newsom for lumber baron William M. Carson. This project was designed to keep mill workers and expert craftsman busy during a slow period in the industry. Old Town Eureka , the original downtown center of this busy city in
9379-631: The object. Preverb sequences, which consist of up to four syntactic prefixes, are the first step in expanding the derived and inflected verbal form. A great deal of morphological information can be conveyed in this prefixed element: aspect, mode and tense are all commonly expressed using preverbs, as is quantitative information and polarity . Nominal forms round out and complete Wiyot sentences, frequently serving as adjuncts to verbal phrases. Nouns are categorized as either principal or modifying phrases. Principal phrases include nominalized forms and possessive phrases, while modifying phrases typically refer to
9492-418: The particulars of each system are different. Stems are non-affixal morphemes , and can appear individually or as compounds. For example, thig- , meaning 'out', can appear as the only stem of a given word, or be joined to another stem, such as -atol , 'go'. Their compound, thigatol- , 'go out', is also a stem. Stems are either initial or medial. Initial stems may appear, as their name implies, as
9605-454: The perceived phonological heaviness of the language. In speech, Wiyot words are grouped into pitch accent phrases, which are separated by commas when written. Within these phrases, regular patterns of syllable stress and vowel length emerge. Stress, pitch and vowel length increase gradually from the beginning of the accent phrase until the culminative syllable in the accent phrase is reached, after which pitch precipitously drops, except when it
9718-399: The phrase. It is also lengthened relative to the other vowels in the phrase. After this culminative syllable, pitch and length decrease rapidly through the end of the accent phrase. The second breath group contains just one accent phrase, łekoku lulawìl . Here, the culminative syllable comes at the end of the accent phrase, indicating that pitch and length increase through the phrase until
9831-654: The population) lived in households, 1,434 (5.3%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 449 (1.7%) were institutionalized. There were 11,150 households, out of which 2,891 (25.9%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 3,554 (31.9%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 1,449 (13.0%) had a female householder with no husband present, 710 (6.4%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 1,161 (10.4%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships , and 146 (1.3%) same-sex married couples or partnerships . 3,971 households (35.6%) were made up of individuals, and 1,183 (10.6%) had someone living alone who
9944-408: The population. There were 10,957 households, out of which 25.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.8% were married couples living together, 14.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.3% were non-families. 35.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and
10057-454: The primary city on the bay, Arcata 's proximity to developing supply lines to inland gold mines ensured supremacy over Eureka through 1856. "Eureka" received its name from a Greek word meaning "I have found it!" This exuberant statement of successful (or hopeful) gold rush miners is also the official motto of the State of California. Eureka is the only U.S. location to use the same seal as
10170-416: The primary port facilities. Loggers brought the enormous redwood trees down. Dozens of movable narrow gauge railroads brought trainloads of logs and finished lumber products to the main rail line, which led directly to Eureka's wharf and waiting schooners. By the 1880s, railroads eventually brought the production of hundreds of mills throughout the region to Eureka, primarily for shipment through its port. After
10283-441: The satisfaction of most, if not all, researchers, giving rise to the term Algic to refer to the Algonquian languages together with Wiyot and Yurok. The Wiyot Tribal Government is fostering a revival of the language through videos, online dictionaries, and an annual Wiyot language calendar. Karl V. Teeter published the first modern descriptive grammar of Wiyot in 1964. His data, supplied by Della Prince soon before her death,
10396-600: The second member of a compound with a special initial l- . This compound has essentially the same meaning as the medial itself. For example, the medial -athohl , meaning 'throw' or 'jump', can appear with an initial 'l-' as lathohl- , meaning 'throw'. Wiyot affixes are classified as either derivational , inflectional or syntactic . Derivational affixes are attached to stems and serve to classify them. Together, stems and derivational affixes form 'themes', which can be further modified by inflectional and syntactic affixes. The stem rakh- , meaning 'laugh', may take
10509-663: The settlement of Eureka on its shore by the Union and Mendocino Exploring (development) companies. After the primary California Gold Rush in the Sierras , Humboldt Bay was settled with the intent of providing a convenient alternative to the long overland route from Sacramento to supply miners on the Trinity , Klamath and Salmon Rivers where gold had been discovered. Though the ideal location on Humboldt Bay adjacent to naturally deeper shipping channels ultimately guaranteed Eureka's development as
10622-464: The state for its seal. Incoming settlers began encroaching on Wiyot people by cutting off their access to ancestral sources of food in addition to the outright theft of their land. Fort Humboldt was established by the U.S. Army on January 30, 1853, to establish peaceful relations between Native Americans, gold-seekers and settlers, often at the expense of the life and liberty of the Native people. The fort
10735-414: The subject and object of the theme. Wiyot makes a sharp distinction between definite and indefinite subjects, and each of these classes has its own set of inflectional affixes. Certain classes of Wiyot verbs can also take benefactive and instrumental affixes. The benefactive characterizes the verb as being done to a third person object for the benefit of a second object. Instrumental affixes convey that action
10848-428: The subjects or objects indicated in verb forms. The personal pronouns distinguish three persons, each with a singular and plural variant. Thus, this set of pronouns is frequently used to clarify number in verb forms, as Wiyot verbs themselves do not. The first person plural pronoun hinód , for example, is often employed alongside verb complexes that are inflected for the indefinite third person or impersonal, such as in
10961-405: The subordinate noun theme wapt- and the inflectional suffix -ahl . Possessive inflection is conveyed using prefixes. There are three different sets of possessive prefixes, though the majority of Wiyot nouns are inflected using only one of these. This most productive set distinguishes three persons : first- duh ; second- khuh ; third- huh . The final h seen in these stems
11074-408: The use of a subordinative derivational suffix. Locative inflection is indicated by one of two affixes: the suffix -okw and the prefix ho- . Both have general meanings which can be translated as 'at, on, near, above, over, under, behind, etc.'. -okw is employed with the great majority of Wiyot nouns, as in kwásokw , meaning 'on the hill', and bíhwadawawokw , 'in the smoke'. ho-
11187-428: The various relationships and categories already expressed in verb forms. Like verbs, nouns consist of stems and affixes. Nominalization is the most important process in Wiyot for deriving nouns. Typically, nouns are created from verbs by adding one of twelve nominalizing affixes to the verb complex. The most common nominalizing suffix is ił , and there are many examples of nominalized forms that employ it. ( ił
11300-408: The verb form rakhohw- shown above: -al is the nonterminal suffix that encodes a first person object, and -ił is the terminal suffix for a third person subject. Syntactic affixes, many of which are prefixes, also known as preverbs, are affixed to verb themes and often convey aspectual information. For example, in the phrase łekowa khúhnad , meaning 'finally it starts to get dark',
11413-460: The verb theme khuhn- , 'to get dark', is modified by two syntactic suffixes, łe- and kowa- . łe- means 'finally', and kowa- marks the inchoative aspect , translated here as 'it starts'. khuhn- is also inflected for the third person subject by the inflectional terminal suffix -ad . Verbs form can take up to four preverbs, which appear in a fixed order according to their syntactic class. There are nine classes in total, with
11526-543: The victims were primarily children, women, and elderly tribal members. Major Gabriel J. Rains , Commanding Officer of Fort Humboldt at the time, reported to his commanding officer that a local group of vigilantes had resolved to "kill every peaceable Indian – man, woman, and child." Although the perpetrators were known, they never faced any legal consequences. Remaining Wiyot people took refuge at Fort Humboldt, but they were not given adequate living accommodations, and so half of them died from starvation or exposure. In 2004,
11639-507: The word hutóphahl , tóph , meaning 'spruce root' is aspirated, [tɑpʰ] ; when the same morpheme appears in isolation, though, it is articulated without the final aspiration, [tɑp] . When any element ending in /o/ is followed by another element beginning in /b/ or /w/ , /la/ is inserted. In the example kado-la-wal-áh , 'I don't see it', la follows the negating element kado , and itself conveys no meaning. When any two vowels, or any three consonants that cannot occur as
11752-400: The word palógih , meaning 'flounder', the 'l' is lengthened. Thus, the first syllable ends with 'l', and the second begins with 'l', and both syllables are considered heavy. Teeter describes the " weight " of Wiyot syllables as one of the language's most salient features for speakers of English. He adds that voiced sounds tend to be exceptionally long in spoken Wiyot, a feature that adds to
11865-413: Was 1,881.3 inhabitants per square mile (726.4/km ). The racial makeup of Eureka was 21,565 (79.3%) White , 514 (1.9%) African American , 1,011 (3.7%) Native American , 1,153 (4.2%) Asian , 176 (0.6%) Pacific Islander , 1,181 (4.3%) from other races , and 1,591 (5.9%) from two or more races. There were 3,143 Hispanic or Latino people of any race (11.6%). The census reported that 25,308 people (93.1% of
11978-438: Was 2.0%; the rental vacancy rate was 3.7%. 11,251 people (41.4% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 14,057 people (51.7%) lived in rental housing units. The economic base of the city was founded on timber and fishing and supplying resources for the gold mining efforts further inland. Gold mining diminished quickly in the early years, and activities of timber and fishing have also diminished, especially in
12091-749: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27. There were 5,713 families (51.2% of all households); the average family size was 2.93. There were 5,431 residents (20.0%) under the age of 18, 3,102 (11.4%) aged 18 to 24, 8,021 (29.5%) aged 25 to 44, 7,422 (27.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 3,215 (11.8%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36.2 years. For every 100 females, there were 106.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 105.7 males. There were 11,891 housing units at an average density of 822.7 units per square mile (317.6 units/km ), of which 11,150 were occupied, of which 4,829 (43.3%) were owner-occupied, and 6,321 (56.7%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate
12204-533: Was also affected by the Pacific Lumber Company hostile takeover and ultimate bankruptcy. Local fisheries expanded through the 1970s and early 1980s. During the 1970s, Eureka fishermen landed more than half of the fish and shellfish produced and consumed in California. In 2010, between 100 and 120 commercial fishing vessels listed Eureka as homeport. The highest landings of all species were 36.9 million lb (16.7 million kg) in 1981 while
12317-411: Was commanded by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Robert C. Buchanan of the U.S. 4th Infantry Regiment . These tensions between Native people and settlers eventually led to the massacre on Tuluwat Island in 1860. The attackers, who were thought to be composed primarily of Eureka businessmen, killed as many as 250 Wiyot people. The Wiyot men had left the island during their annual World Renewal Ceremony, so
12430-597: Was considered "a lively place for a small town, full of business and with plenty of money." The roads beyond Second street (the equivalent of "Main" Street) were covered with stumps from the (recently logged) Redwood forest, and had not opened yet. Old Town Eureka was named as one of the 100 best art towns in America. Within its bounds is the Clarke Historical Museum . Eureka, California Eureka ( / j ʊ ˈ r iː k ə / yuurr- EE -kə ; Wiyot : Jaroujiji ; Hupa : dahwilahłding ; Karok : Uuth )
12543-483: Was crucial to the establishment of the genetic relationship between Algonquin and Wiyot, and effectively ended the scholarly conflict surrounding the issue. All of the linguistic data below comes from his work, published by the University of California Press. The consonants of Wiyot, as recorded by Teeter, are given in this chart. A cell containing a phoneme will contain, from left to right, Teeter's Practical Orthography,
12656-491: Was from July 1889 to June 1890 with 73.30 in (1,861.8 mm) and the driest from July 1976 to June 1977 with 17.56 in (446.0 mm). The greatest monthly precipitation was 23.21 in (589.5 mm) in December 2002. The greatest 24-hour precipitation was 6.79 in (172.5 mm) on December 27, 2002. However, historic 100-year dramatic weather events such as the Christmas Week flood of 1955 and, especially,
12769-569: Was out over a large area. Numerous natural gas leaks occurred, but no fires resulted. This was the largest recent earthquake since the April 25–26, 1992 sequence . It was followed on February 4, 2010, by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake which struck about 35 miles (56 km) northwest of the community of Petrolia and nearly 50 miles (80 km) west of Eureka. The shaking was felt within a 150-mile (240 km) radius, as far north as southern Oregon and as far south as Sonoma County . The largest recorded in
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