Arcata, California
Humboldt County
06-02476
Arcata is a city in Humboldt County in the U.S. state of California, United States, with 17 231 inhabitants ( 2010). The metropolitan area has a size of 28.6 km ².
The first settlement in the area was in 1850 with the name Uniontown instead. In August 1989, reached the voters of Arcata, argued that the city was recognized as nuclear-weapon- free zone and banned all activities of the nuclear weapons production in the urban area.
2003, a law was passed in Arcata, which the local authorities working with U.S. federal agencies such as the FBI, the CIA or the Department of Immigration forbids if this surveillance, arrests or deportations within the meaning of the U.S. wants to make Patriot Act - Federal law. The city thus boycotted the 2001 enacted the Patriot Act, which is regarded by the citizens Arcatas as unconstitutional.
In the city the Humboldt State University.
From the air you can reach through the Arcata Airport Arcata -Eureka.
In Arcata, the Green Party of the USA has the second highest number of members in California's per capita comparison. Also, some city councilors belong to the Greens.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Michael Moore, jazz musician (clarinet, saxophone and composition ), who lives since 1982 in the Netherlands and to the representatives of the Modern Creative style counts
- Brisa Roché, singer and songwriter
- Willi Unsoeld, mountaineers
- Michael Phillips, writer