Spyrock (formerly, Spy Rock) is an unincorporated community of ranches in Mendocino County, California.[1][2] It is located around Spyrock Road, which runs east of Highway 101 to the Eel River and Northwestern Pacific Railroad.[3][2]
Spyrock | |
|---|---|
  Spyrock Location in California  Spyrock Spyrock (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 39°52′36″N 123°26′38″W / 39.87667°N 123.44389°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Mendocino County |
| Elevation | 850 ft (259 m) |
It is named after Spy Rock, a 540 ft landmark hill on the east side of the river, and The Wildlands Conservancy operates the 5,832 acres Spyrock reserve in the area.[4][5][6]
A post office operated at Spyrock from 1910 to 1911, and from 1915 to 1967.[7] Spy Rock Elementary School located on Spy Rock Road is in Laytonville Unified school district,[8] although Spy Rock previously had its own school district.[9]
There was a station on the railroad named Spy Rock which until 1914 was named Redwine.[10]
In 1982 a Petroglyph site was discovered beside Spy Rock Road which provided the first evidence of complex rock art boulders in the western United States.[11][12]
The Spy Rock Road album by The Lookouts was named after the road by Larry Livermore who lived in Spy Rock in the 1980s.[2]
Spy Rock features prominently in the 2021 Hulu docuseries Sasquatch.
References
edit- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Spyrock, California
- ^ a b c Larry Livermore (June 4, 2013). Spy Rock Memories. ISBN 9780989196307.
- ^ DeLorme California Atlas & Gazetteer (2008) Yarmouth, Maine p.47 ISBN 0-89933-383-4
- ^ "Spyrock Reserve » The Wildlands Conservancy". The Wildlands Conservancy. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
- ^ "Let's Get Antiquated". The Press Democrat. September 19, 1971. p. 55. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
- ^ "Spy Rock", Santa Ana Register, p. 6, August 29, 1976, Leisure supplement, retrieved April 22, 2021
- ^ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 149. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
- ^ "Spy Rock Elementary - School Directory Details (CA Dept of Education)". www.cde.ca.gov. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
- ^ "Spyrock School District". Ukiah Dispatch Democrat. April 13, 1900. p. 5. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
- ^ "Redwine to be Renamed Spy Rock". Ukiah Daily Journal. August 21, 1914. p. 7. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
- ^ Mark Gary; Dan Foster (1990), "Mendocino County and Rock Art Conservation" (PDF), Society for California Archaeology Newsletter, vol. 24, no. 3, Society for California Archaeology
- ^ Dainel G. Foster, "A Note on CA-MEN-1912 The Spyrock Road Site, Mendocino County, California.pdf", San Diego Museum of Man Rock Art Papers, San Diego Museum: 51–56
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