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Weott, California
Weott is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. It is located north of San Francisco, California and due east of the Pacific Ocean. Lower Weott is situated at an elevation of along the Avenue of the Giants and in the flood plain of the South Fork of the Eel River. The population was 288 at the 2010 census. Note that Weott is not related to Camp Weeott, a fishing village established about 1925 and destroyed in the 1955 flood which was located northwest of Weott, near Ferndale, California.
==History==
The town of Weott is believed to be named after a sub-grouping of the Wishosk people who lived at the delta of the Eel River northwest of current-day Weott. The Wishosk word for that area and the people who lived there was wíyat.〔Campbell, Lyle. (1997). ''American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America''. New York: Oxford University Press, page 152.〕 Wiyot is now the general name for this group. The town of Weott is beyond the bounds of the areas known to have been utilized or inhabited by the Wiyot. In 1849, when whites arrived looking for new supply routes to the Trinity gold mines, the Sinkyone peoples were living in the area. The Wiyot were further north and currently occupy the Table Bluff Reservation outside Loleta.〔(Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible To Receive Services From The United States Bureau of Indian Affairs ), U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Federal Register, February 16, 1995 (Volume 60, Number 32) (9249-9255 ) 60 Fed. Reg. 9249 (Feb. 16 1995)〕 Indian Agent Redick McKee's 1851 expedition brought a rush of homestead filings. Native groups militated against this. The resulting conflicts led to the establishment of organized vigilante committees such as the Volunteer Company of Dragoons and continued through at least the 1870s.
Before 1925, Weott had been known informally as Helm's Mill or Helm's Camp, then as McKee's Mill (named for Ernest McKee, who operated a shingle mill just east of lower Weott, the building of which still stands).〔 When it put in a request to the United States Postal Service for a post office in that year, however, the residents had to decide on a definitive name.〔 At least one source records that the residents were required to do this because there was already a town named McKee in California, but this appears to not be true. One source says that a naming contest led to the name Weott,〔We Call This Home: Oral Histories of Southern Humboldt 1900 - 1964. Garberville, CA: Garberville Rotary Club, 2004. 77.〕 another that the USPS chose the name from several submitted.〔 The ZIP Code is 95571, with four-digit suffixes tied to post office box numbers. There is no home delivery in Weott.〔(USPS ZIP Code lookup tool )〕 Weott is in area code 707.
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