Zamora, California
Coordinates: 38°47′48″N 121°52′55″W / 38.79667°N 121.88194°W
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 Zamora
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| Coordinates: 38°47′48″N 121°52′55″W / 38.79667°N 121.88194°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Yolo County |
| Elevation[1] | 52 ft (16 m) |
Zamora (formerly, Black's, Blacks, Black's Station, Blacks Station,[2] and Prairie[3]) is an unincorporated community in rural Yolo County, California, U.S., on Interstate 5 due west of Knights Landing. Its ZIP code is 95698 and its area code 530. It is in the northern part of the county. Children attend schools to the south in Woodland, California; older children attend Woodland High School. There is a 4-H Club. Yolo County officials estimated its 2005 population at 61 and predicted it would have a population of 99 by 2025. Zamora is served by its own post office,[4] and a volunteer fire department. There is one Catholic church. It lies at an elevation of 52 feet (16 m).
In 2006, the Yolo County Health Department reported a mosquito was found infected with West Nile Virus at a Zamora testing site.
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[edit] Economy
Like the rest of Yolo County, Zamora is primarily agricultural. The Bariani Olive Oil Co. has built a processing plant west of Zamora, and of this the Sacramento Business Journal reported on October 2, 2004:[2]
The Bariani received a permit to build an olive oil processing plant near Zamora. The family owns Bariani Olive Oil LLC and plans to expand the business, but its plant by the family home near Gerber Road is too small.
The 130-acre (0.53 km2) parcel in Yolo County is big enough for 18,000 olive trees and a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) building. The company could expand its production by more than 50 percent in six or seven years.
[edit] History
According to the Yolo County Historical Museum, many towns sprang up in Yolo County between 1868 and 1888, including Zamora [3], which was previously known as Black's. Black's was on the railroad and was the pioneer home of J. J. Black, who located there in 1865. When the road, extending northward towards the Oregon line, reached his farm he donated ten acres for depot and grounds and the station was the result. C. H. Smart was the first resident thereof, constructing for his use a dwelling house and a blacksmith shop. He was followed by William Dorgan and Robert Huston, who with his brother Edward established the first store in 1876. The plat for the towns of Black's Station was filed in 1877. [5] A. C. Turner started the first hotel, and Thomas and Hunt erected the first grain warehouse. Among other builders were D. N. Hershey, Ed Huston, George Glascock and John Wolff. Black's Station from the first was an important shipping station, the great farms in the vicinity sending in their harvests to this point for transportation to market. The coming of the Yolo County Consolidated Water Company's system in 1903 to Black's added much to the importance of the place and stimulated business. The new packing plant was finished that year, making the station a fruit center.[6] In 1906 the name was changed to Zamora. According to a 1920 Yolo County map, Zamora was in the Black's District. [5]
A post office opened in Prairie in 1857, changed its name to Black's Station in 1876, and to Zamora in 1915.[3]
[edit] Zamora soils
The town lends its name to a type of soil which is classified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as "a member of the fine-silty, mixed, thermic family of Mollic Haploxeralfs. Typically, Zamora soils have grayish brown, slightly acid loam A horizons; brown silty clay loam, neutral Bt horizons; and yellowish brown C horizons." They are found "Along the west side of the Sacramento Valley in central California and other parts of California" and are "used for growing orchards, row, field, and truck crops. Native vegetation is annual grasses and forbs and widely spaced oaks." [4]
[edit] References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Zamora, California
- ^ All U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Zamora, California
- ^ a b Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Quill Driver Books. p. 580. ISBN 9781884995149.
- ^ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Quill Driver Books. pp. 580. ISBN 9781884995149.
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- ^ Thomas Jefferson Gregory, The History of Yolo County, California (Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California 1913), p. 58, available online at Google Books
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