Fortuna
Fortuna is a city on the northeast shore of the Eel River, approximately 9 miles from where it enters the Pacific Ocean, and is on U.S. Route 101 in west-central Humboldt County, California, United States.Photo: Ellin Beltz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 11,200 residents
- Description: city in the United States of America
- Also known as: “Fortuna, CA”, “Fortuna, California”, “Fortune”, “Friendly City”, “Slide”, and “Springville”
- Postal code: 95540
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fortuna Union High School.
Fortuna Union High School
School
Photo: Ellin Beltz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fortuna Union High School or FUHS, is a public high school in Fortuna, California. The school serves a large area of the midsection of Humboldt County.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rohnerville and Newburg.
Rohnerville
Hamlet
Photo: Ellin Beltz, Public domain.
Rohnerville is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located 2.25 miles southeast of Fortuna and 2.25 miles northwest of Hydesville, at an elevation of 197 feet. Rohnerville is situated 2½ miles southeast of Fortuna.
Newburg
Hamlet
Newburg is a locality in Humboldt County, California. It is located 1.5 miles east of Fortuna, at an elevation of 121 feet. The town, originally named Newberg, was built by the Eel River Valley Lumber Company in 1884.
Alton
Hamlet
Alton is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located 3.5 miles south-southeast of Fortuna, at an elevation of 62 feet. Alton is located along U.S. Route 101 and State Route 36. Alton is situated 3½ miles south of Fortuna.
Fortuna
- Categories: city in the United States, charter city, and locality
- Location: Humboldt County, North Coast, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.5974° or 40° 35′ 51″ northLongitude
-124.156° or 124° 9′ 22″ westPopulation
11,200Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)United Nations Location Code
US FTQOpen location code
84GQHRWV+XHOpenStreetMap ID
node 141031120OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Fortuna” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فورتونا”
- Basque: “Fortuna”
- Bulgarian: “Фортуна”
- Catalan: “Fortuna”
- Cebuano: “Fortuna”
- Chechen: “Фортуна”
- Chinese: “Fortuna”
- Chinese: “福图纳”
- Chinese: “福圖納”
- Croatian: “Fortuna”
- Danish: “Fortuna”
- Dutch: “Fortuna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فورتونا”
- French: “Fortuna”
- German: “Fortuna”
- Gilaki: “فؤرتۊنا”
- Haitian: “Fortuna, Kalifòni”
- Haitian: “Fortuna”
- Hungarian: “Fortuna”
- Irish: “Fortuna”
- Italian: “Fortuna”
- Japanese: “フォーチュナ”
- Ladin: “Fortuna”
- Malagasy: “Fortuna, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Fortuna”
- Malayalam: “ഫോർച്ചൂണ”
- Mazanderani: “فورتونا (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “فورتونا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fortuna”
- Newari: “फर्च्युना (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
- Newari: “फर्च्युना, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “फर्च्युना”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fortuna”
- Norwegian: “Fortuna”
- Persian: “فورتونا، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “فورتونا”
- Polish: “Fortuna”
- Portuguese: “Fortuna”
- Russian: “Фортуна (Калифорния)”
- Russian: “Фортуна”
- Serbian: “Фортјуна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fortuna, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fortuna”
- South Azerbaijani: “فورتونا، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Fortuna (California)”
- Spanish: “Fortuna”
- Swedish: “Fortuna, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Fortuna”
- Tagalog: “Fortuna, California”
- Tagalog: “Fortuna”
- Tatar: “Фортуна”
- Turkish: “Fortuna, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Fortuna”
- Ukrainian: “Фортуна”
- Urdu: “فارتونا، کیلی فورنیا”
- Urdu: “فارتونا، کیلی فونیا”
- Uzbek: “Fortuna”
- Volapük: “Fortuna”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fortuna, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fortuna”
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