Available Acreage for Sale near Rio Dell California

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Available Acreage for Sale near Rio Dell California

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The City of Rio Dell California
The City of Rio Dell, "The Warm Hearted City," is located on a bend of the Eel River below the ancient Scotia Bluffs and surrounded by redwood trees. The City has a population of approximately 3,250 and benefits from the best of Humboldt County climates with average summer temperatures 67° F in July, and an overall annual average temperature of 54°. Snow is rare within the City limits but it is often visible on the hills above Rio Dell in the winter months. Located along U.S. 101, Rio Dell is an excellent starting point for trips to the Humboldt Bay area, the Victorian Village of Ferndale, the historic Pacific Lumber mill town of Scotia and the Avenue of the Giants which offers miles of the most beautiful forest scenery in the world through majestic redwood groves.

Currently, the City of Rio Dell is in the midst of a renaissance marked by substantial new residential development in the historic downtown area, or "Town Center." Additonally, the City is completing significant upgrades to a water utility, including a new Eel River water intake structure and filtration system and a city-wide rehabilitation of the water distribution infrastructure. Another new important project includes the Wildwood Avenue Gateway.

History of Rio Dell, California

The history of the City of Rio Dell is unique. In the 1870's Lorenzo Painter settled in what is now known as Rio Dell. He started a friendly farming community which he named Eagle Prairie. Over the years three separate small community areas evolved which were popularly named Wildwood which is now downtown Rio Dell, Belleview, now a major area and avenue northwest of the center of town and Eagle Prairie,now the Pacific Avenue area west of the center of town. Rio Dell’s history has been colorful and somewhat tawdry, not unique in the western states in the 19th and early 20th Century. Gambling, bootlegging, prostitution and other businesses of questionable virtue flourished.
Rio Dell is now famous for its fossil beds across the Eel River in an area known as the Scotia Bluffs. Fossils preserved in sandstone age from one million years to fifty million years since the entire area was a prehistoric branch of the Pacific Ocean. The fossils found in the area include razor clams, sand dollars, crabs, starfish and other shallow water sea life. Occasionally, other fossils are found including agetized whale bone. The fossils are found in out cropping of shale, sandstone, and mudstone.

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