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Birds Landing, California

Unincorporated community in California, United States

Field	Value
official_name	Birds Landing, California
settlement_type	Unincorporated community
pushpin_map	California#USA
pushpin_map_caption	location in California
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_name1	California
subdivision_name2	Solano
leader_title	County Board
leader_title1	Senate
leader_name1	Mark DeSaulnier (D)
leader_title2	Assembly
leader_name2	Nancy Skinner (D)
leader_title3	U. S. Congress
leader_name3
elevation_ft	52
elevation_footnotes
population_as_of	2000
population_total	130
timezone	PST
utc_offset	-8
coordinates_footnotes
coordinates
timezone_DST	PDT
utc_offset_DST	-7
postal_code_type	ZIP code
postal_code	94512
area_code	707
blank_name	FIPS code
blank1_name	GNIS feature ID

Birds Landing (also Bird's Landing) is an unincorporated community in southern Solano County, California, United States. It lies at the intersection of Collinsville and Montezuma Hills Roads, southeast of the city of Fairfield, the county seat of Solano County. Situated just north of the Sacramento River, the community is located midway between Sacramento and San Francisco. Birds Landing has its own ZIP code (94512) but presently no post office; the previous post office closed in 2001.

History

Onetime shipping point for John Bird, who had a storage and commission business.

Demographics

The population was 130 in 2000; there were 66 men and 64 women. The generational makeup was 7 under five years, 8 five to nine years, 10 ten to fourteen, 11 fifteen to nineteen, 13 twenty to twenty-four, 10 twenty-five to thirty-four, 18 thirty-five to forty-four, 24 forty-five to fifty-four, 8 fifty-five to fifty-nine, 6 sixty to sixty-four, 11 sixty-four to seventy-four, 4 seventy-five to eighty-four, and 0 over the age of eighty-five. The median age was 41.3. Of the 100 over the age of eighteen, 53 were male and 47 were female. 92 were twenty-one and over. 15 were over the age of sixty-five, with 8 males and 7 females. The average owner-owned home housed 2.45 people, compared to 3.62 for renter-occupied homes.

47% of the population spoke English as their primary language while 53% did not; of those 53%, 29% spoke Spanish and 24% spoke "Other Indic languages".

Gallery

Birds Landing, California.jpg|Birds Landing, California Bird and Dinkelspiel Store in Birds Landing, California.jpg|Bird and Dinkelspiel Store in Birds Landing, California Shirley's Tavern in Birds Landing, California.jpg|Shirley's Tavern in Birds Landing, California

References

{{Cite GovTrack. CA. 3
{{Cite gnis. 219320. Birds Landing
Rand McNally. ''The Road Atlas '08.'' [[Chicago]]: [[Rand McNally]], 2008, p. 12-13.
link. (June 15, 2011)
Bowen, Jerry, [http://www.solanoarticles.com/history/index.php/weblog/more/once_flourishing_town_now_echoes_history/ "Once flourishing, town now echoes history"]. Retrieved November 22, 2014
(1998). "California place names : the origin and etymology of current geographical names". University of California Press.
[http://www.relocationnow.com/profilebreakout-94512-CA-all.html 94512 entry], Relocation Now, access date, U.S. Census 2000, July 20, 2008
[http://www.mla.org/cgi-shl/docstudio/docs.pl?map_data_primary 94512 entry] {{webarchive. link. (2008-08-01 , American Fact Finder/U.S. Census 2000 (at MLA Data Center), access date July 20, 2008)

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