Forestville, California

Forestville is a city in Sonoma County, California.

Forestville is centrally located in Sonoma County, about 100 km north of San Francisco and has an area of 10.6 square kilometers. A few kilometers east of the city leads the Laguna de Santa Rosa in the Mark West Creek, which flows at the site in the Russian River, where the latter river bends a few kilometers north of the city from the north to the west. In the south of the city, the only occurrence of the highly endangered Lilium are pardalinum subsp. pitkinense and Carex albida. In the hilly south and east of the city are some wineries and apple orchards.

The city was founded in the late 1860s and was originally written by one of its founders Forrest Ville, the second " r " but was omitted with time. The majority of the city burned down in a fire, so most buildings date from the early 20th century.

Demography

Data obtained from the census in 2000 2.370 inhabitants living in 941 households, among them were 592 families. The population density was 223 per square kilometer. Among the population was 89.3 percent white, 1.1 percent African American, 1.2 percent American Indian, 1.6 percent Asian and 0.2 percent of residents of the Pacific island region; 2.8 percent reported other ethnicities, 3.8 percent reported multiple ethnicities.

The median household income was $ 50,898, the family income $ 60,417.