Metropolitan, California

Coordinates: 41°00′42″N 124°05′05″W / 41.01167°N 124.08472°W / 41.01167; -124.08472

Metropolitan
Unincorporated community
Concrete sidewalks at the bend in the road through 21st century dairy pastures identify the former company town of Metropolitan, California.
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Coordinates: 40°30′53″N 124°08′41″W / 40.51472°N 124.14472°W / 40.51472; -124.14472
Country	United States
State	California
County	Humboldt County
Elevation^[1]	72 ft (22 m)

Metropolitan is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California.^[1] It is located on McDairmid Prairie, on the north side of the Eel River floodplain three miles downstream of Scotia,^[2] at an elevation of 72 feet (22 m).^[1]

History

The location was formerly a company town of 25 homes with a hotel and store for sawmill workers of the Metropolitan Redwood Lumber Company organized in 1904 by owners in Michigan and Wisconsin. Company timberlands on Slater Creek were reached by a railroad trestle across the Eel River. The timber was logged out in the 1920s, and the sawmill burned in 1932. Most of the employee housing was moved to Rio Dell by 1937.^[2] The railway trestle and 62-room hotel were destroyed by the Eel River flood of 23 December 1964.^[3]

Metropolitan Redwood Lumber Company Locomotives

Number	Builder	Type	Date	Works number	Notes^[4]
1	Lima Locomotive Works	Shay locomotive	3 May 1907	1836	purchased new; became Pacific Lumber Company #36 in October 1935
2	Lima Locomotive Works	Shay locomotive	24 December 1904	867	formerly Amador Central Railway #2 (Ione, California); purchased 1912; scrapped 1935

References

1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Metropolitan, California
1 2 Carranco, Lynwood (1982). Redwood Lumber Industry. Golden West Books. p. 203. ISBN 0-87095-084-3.
↑ Waananen, A.O., Harris, D.D. and Williams, R.C. (1971). Floods of December 1964 and January 1965 in the Far Western States. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office. p. 150.
↑ Koch, Michael (1971). The Shay Locomotive Titan of the Timber. The World Press. pp. 411&422.

Municipalities and communities of Humboldt County, California, United States

County seat: Eureka

Cities	Arcata Blue Lake Eureka Ferndale Fortuna Rio Dell Trinidad

CDPs	Alderpoint Bayview Benbow Big Lagoon Cutten Fieldbrook Fields Landing Garberville Humboldt Hill Hydesville Indianola Loleta McKinleyville Manila Miranda Myers Flat Myrtletown Orick Phillipsville Pine Hills Redcrest Redway Samoa Scotia Shelter Cove Weott Westhaven-Moonstone Willow Creek

Unincorporated communities	Alton Bayside Blocksburg Briceland Bridgeville Carlotta Cooks Valley Dinsmore Elk River Englewood Fairhaven Fernbridge Fort Seward Freshwater Freshwater Corners Fruitland Glendale Holmes Honeydew Hoopa Johnsons King Salmon Kneeland Korbel Maple Creek Moonstone Orleans Patricks Point Pepperwood Petrolia Pine Hill Port Kenyon Ridgewood Heights Riverside Park Rohnerville Rosewood Shively Stafford Sunny Brae Weitchpec Westhaven Whitethorn

Indian reservations	Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria Big Lagoon Rancheria Blue Lake Rancheria Hupa Wiyot Tribe Yurok Indian Reservation

Ghost towns	Acorn Albeeville Apyu Aranimokw Arekw Atsepar Bald Hills Blaine Bracut Brainard Brock Creek Bryan Bryant Bucksport Calville Camp 4 Flat Camp 19 Camp Grant Centerville Chinits Cleveland Crannell Daby's Ferry Dark Canyon Dinty Dyer Place Dyerville Eddyville Elinor Elk Grove Elk Prairie Erner Ertlerger Eshpeu Frank Fruitland Fort Baker Gans Hadley Hartsook Honsading Humboldt City Iaqua Kokaman Kworatem Lippitt Lockharts Lone Star Loolego Luffenholtz Mandala Martins Ferry McDuff Meridian Metropolitan Mountain View Mower Myrtle Grove Northern Redwood Camp Oketo Opegoi Ore'q Panamenik Pardee's Ranch Pasara Pekwan Pekwuteu Robinson's Ferry Scribner Shanamkarak Showers Pass Shregegon Shumig Skelly Smith Tanoak Three Cabins Tsofkara Tsurau West Humboldt Wilder

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