Mendocino
A favorite weekend getaway for Northern California Bay Area residents, the village of Mendocino is older than both the county and state to which it belongs, having lent its name to the former and further still to the combined coastal watersheds that occupy the nearly 200 miles between the mouths of the Eel and Russian Rivers, known far and wide as the Mendocino Coast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jef Poskanzer, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Village with 894 residents
- Description: unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Big River”, “Meiggstown”, “Mendocino, CA”, and “Mendocino, California”
- Historically known as: “Mendocino City”
- Postal code: 95460
Places of Interest
Highlights include Temple of Kwan Tai and Mendocino Presbyterian Church.
Temple of Kwan Tai
Place of worship
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Temple of Kwan Tai is a Chinese Taoist temple in Mendocino, California, dedicated to Kwan Tai. It is California Historical Landmark #927. The temple was constructed from local redwood in the mid-19th century and served what was once a large population…
Mendocino Presbyterian Church
Church
Photo: Tom Hilton, CC BY 2.0.
The Mendocino Presbyterian Church is a historic Carpenter Gothic-style Presbyterian church building located at 44831 Main Street, in Mendocino, California.
Frederick W. Panhorst Bridge
Bridge
Photo: David Eppstein, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Frederick W. Panhorst Bridge, more commonly known as the Russian Gulch Bridge, is a reinforced concrete open-spandrel deck arch bridge on California State Highway 1, spanning Russian Gulch Creek in Russian Gulch State Park, Mendocino County, California, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little River and Caspar.
Little River
Hamlet
Photo: Jef Poskanzer, CC BY 2.0.
Little River is a small census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States. It lies at an elevation of 66 feet, 3 miles south of the town of Mendocino and running along the Pacific Ocean coast on State Route 1. Little River is situated 2½ miles south of Mendocino.
Caspar
Village
Photo: Jef Poskanzer, CC BY 2.0.
Caspar is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, United States. It is located on the Pacific Ocean, 4 miles north of Mendocino, at an elevation of 82 feet. Caspar is situated 4 miles north of Mendocino.
Pine Grove
Locality
Pine Grove is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California. It is located 3 miles north-northwest of Mendocino, at an elevation of 167 feet. On the ocean just west of the community is the Point Cabrillo Light station. Pine Grove is situated 3 miles north of Mendocino.
Mendocino
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Mendocino County, North Coast, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.3077° or 39° 18′ 28″ northLongitude
-123.7995° or 123° 47′ 58″ westPopulation
894Elevation
154 feet (47 metres)United Nations Location Code
US MNDOpen location code
84FR8652+36OpenStreetMap ID
node 141042156OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Mendocino” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mendocino, Kalifornië”
- Afrikaans: “Mendocino”
- Arabic: “ميندوسينو”
- Basque: “Mendocino”
- Catalan: “Mendocino”
- Cebuano: “Mendocino”
- Chechen: “Мэндосино”
- Chinese: “Mendocino”
- Chinese: “蒙多西诺”
- Chinese: “蒙多西諾”
- Chinese: “門多西諾”
- Croatian: “Mendocino”
- Czech: “Mendocino”
- Dutch: “Mendocino”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة ميندوسينو”
- French: “Mendocino”
- German: “Mendocino”
- Gilaki: “مندؤسينؤ”
- Greek: “Μεντοσίνο”
- Hebrew: “מנדוסינו”
- Irish: “Mendocino”
- Italian: “Mendocino”
- Japanese: “メンドシーノ”
- Japanese: “メンドシノ”
- Ladin: “Mendocino”
- Malagasy: “Mendocino, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Mendocino”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mendocino”
- Newari: “मेनोदोसिनो (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
- Newari: “मेनोदोसिनो, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “मेनोदोसिनो”
- Persian: “مندوسینو، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “مندوسینو”
- Polish: “Mendocino”
- Portuguese: “Mendocino (Califórnia)”
- Portuguese: “Mendocino”
- Russian: “Мендосино”
- Serbian: “Мендосино”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mendocino, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mendocino, Kalifornija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mendocino”
- Slovak: “Mendocino”
- Slovenian: “Mendocino”
- South Azerbaijani: “مندوسینو، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Mendocino (California)”
- Spanish: “Mendocino”
- Swedish: “Mendocino”
- Tatar: “Мэндосино”
- Turkish: “Mendocino”
- Ukrainian: “Мендосіно”
- Volapük: “Mendocino (CA)”
- Volapük: “Mendocino (California)”
- Volapük: “Mendocino, CA”
- Volapük: “Mendocino, California”
- Volapük: “Mendocino”
- Welsh: “Mendocino”
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