Scotia
Scotia, formerly known as Forestville until 1888, is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. It is located on the Eel River along U.S. Route 101, 8.5 miles southeast of Fortuna and 244 miles north of San Francisco.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 681 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Forestville”, “Scotia, CA”, and “Scotia, California”
- Postal code: 95565
Places of Interest
Highlights include Scotia Bluffs.
Scotia Bluffs
Cliff
Scotia Bluffs form a 2-mile series of gray sandstone cliffs along the north bank of the Eel River near Rio Dell, California.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rio Dell and Stafford.
Rio Dell
Village
Photo: Ellin Beltz, Public domain.
Rio Dell is a city in Humboldt County, California, United States. It is located on the west bank of the Eel River 1 mile north of Scotia at an elevation of 161 feet. The population was 3,379 at the 2020 census, up from 3,363 at the 2010 census.
Stafford
Hamlet
Stafford is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located on the south bank of the Eel River 3 miles southeast of Scotia, at an elevation of 138 feet. Stafford is situated 3½ miles southeast of Scotia.
Scotia
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Humboldt County, North Coast, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.4845° or 40° 29′ 4″ northLongitude
-124.1016° or 124° 6′ 6″ westPopulation
681Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)United Nations Location Code
US SIAOpen location code
84GQFVMX+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
node 141029612OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Volapük—“Scotia” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Scotia”
- Catalan: “Scotia”
- Cebuano: “Scotia”
- Chechen: “Скоша”
- Chinese: “斯科舍”
- Chinese: “斯科蒂亞”
- Croatian: “Scotia”
- Dutch: “Scotia”
- French: “Scotia”
- German: “Scotia, California”
- German: “Scotia”
- Gilaki: “اسکؤشيا”
- Irish: “Scotia”
- Italian: “Scotia”
- Ladin: “Scotia”
- Malagasy: “Scotia, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Scotia”
- Persian: “اسکوشیا، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “اسکوشیا”
- Polish: “Scotia”
- Serbian: “Скоша”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Scotia, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Scotia”
- South Azerbaijani: “اسکوشیا، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Scotia”
- Swedish: “Scotia, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Scotia”
- Tatar: “Скоша”
- Turkish: “Scotia”
- Ukrainian: “Скоша”
- Volapük: “Scotia”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Scotia”. Photo: Barabas, CC BY 3.0.