Yurok Indian Reservation
Yurok Reservation | |
|---|---|
| Yurok Indian Reservation | |
 Yurok Indian Reservation | |
 Location of Yurok Indian Reservation | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Counties | Del Norte Humboldt |
| Tribal Nation | Yurok |
| Administrative Capital | Klamath, California |
| Government | |
| • Body | Yurok Tribe Tribal Council |
| • Chairman | Joe James |
| • Vice Chairman | Frankie Myers |
| Area | |
• Total | 88.08 sq mi (228.1 km2) |
| • Land | 84.73 sq mi (219.4 km2) |
| • Water | 3.35 sq mi (8.7 km2) |
| Population | |
• Total | 1,236 |
| Website | https://www.yuroktribe.org/ |
The Yurok Indian Reservation is a Native American reservation for the Yurok people located in parts of Del Norte and Humboldt counties, California, on a 44-mile (71 km) stretch of the Klamath River. It is one of a very few tribes who have never been removed from their ancestral lands in California.[1]
The 84.714 square miles (219.41 km2) reservation is serviced by California Route 169 from the south, which dead ends within the reservation. It is bordered by the Hoopa Indian Reservation to the south, adjacent to Redwood National Park to the west and completely surrounds the Pulikla Tribe of Yurok People. The 2000 census reported a resident population of 1,103 persons on reservation territory, mostly in the community of Klamath, at the reservation's north end. As of the 2010 Census the population was 1,238 and as of the 2020 census it was 1,236.[2][3]
In 2024, 125 acres (51 ha) of land that had been taken from the tribe during the California gold rush was added to the reservation. It will be co-managed with the National Park Service.[4] Leading up to June 2025, a total of 47,000 acres (19,000 ha) was added to the reservation in a Land Back deal, doubling the reservation's size.[5]
See also
Climate
| Climate data for Yukon Reservation, California | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 50 (10) |
52 (11) |
55 (13) |
60 (16) |
67 (19) |
72 (22) |
78 (26) |
79 (26) |
78 (26) |
67 (19) |
55 (13) |
49 (9) |
64 (18) |
| Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 37 (3) |
37 (3) |
37 (3) |
39 (4) |
43 (6) |
49 (9) |
56 (13) |
55 (13) |
53 (12) |
47 (8) |
40 (4) |
37 (3) |
44 (7) |
| Average precipitation inches (mm) | 16.28 (414) |
12.97 (329) |
12.83 (326) |
9.36 (238) |
5.15 (131) |
1.91 (49) |
0.54 (14) |
0.62 (16) |
1.55 (39) |
6.69 (170) |
12.65 (321) |
19.85 (504) |
100.4 (2,551) |
| Source: Prism[6] | |||||||||||||
References
- ^ "The Yurok".
- ^ "Yurok Reservation". Census.gov. 2010.
- ^ "Explore Census Data". data.census.gov. Retrieved July 13, 2023.
- ^ "California tribe becomes the first to manage land with National Park Service". The Guardian. March 20, 2024. Retrieved December 11, 2025.
- ^ Kurtis Alexander (June 5, 2025). "Huge swath of Northern California to be preserved amid largest-ever land transfer to tribe". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 11, 2025.
- ^ [1] U.S. Climate Data. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
External links
- Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation, official site
- Yurok Reservation, California United States Census Bureau
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