City
Ukiah
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2025 population
16,068
Land area
5.471 sq mi
Water area
0.045 sq mi
Directory notes
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Practical notes
Office, map, permit, and paperwork notes for Ukiah
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Almanac notes
Stories and local context near Ukiah
Place note · History and culture
Ukiah's name and museum keep the valley story close
Ukiah's name reaches back to the Yokaia people, while the Grace Hudson Museum keeps art, Pomo culture, natural history, and local memory in one place.
County layer · History and culture
Point Arena's lighthouse grew from a hard-working coast
Point Arena's wharf, redwood shipping, shipwreck worries, and rebuilt lighthouse all help explain why this small Mendocino Coast city has such a strong story.
County layer · Outdoors
Glass Beach is a pretty place with a cleanup story behind it
Fort Bragg's Glass Beach is known for sea glass, but the deeper lesson is how an old dump area became a protected coastal place.
County layer · History and culture
Willits keeps the Skunk Train side of redwood rail history
The Skunk Train traces its rail history to 1885, when the route served the redwood timber economy between the woods and the Fort Bragg mill.
County layer · History and culture
Mendocino Headlands wraps a village with bluff trails and lumber memory
Mendocino Headlands State Park surrounds the village of Mendocino with bluff trails, ocean views, the Ford House, Pomo context, lumber history, and doghole schooner memory.