Fort Dick California Map

About Fort Dick, California

Fort Dick is a locality in Del Norte County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 912. The population density is 109.5 people per km². Fort Dick is located at 41.8695°N, 124.1672°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 95538.

Fort Dick occupies a quiet expanse of land where the moisture of the Pacific Ocean clings to the air, settling in heavy, salt-flecked drifts that soften the edges of the horizon. It lies 63.7 miles north of McKinleyville, CA (from McKinleyville, CA: bearing 358°T), and is situated 8.2 miles north-northeast of Crescent City. Tryon Creek carves a slow, deliberate path through the landscape, its banks lined with dense vegetation that thrives in the persistent, cooling dampness of the northern coast. To the east, the distant silhouettes of the Klamath Mountains rise as a jagged, indigo promise against the sky, while the local terrain remains defined by its proximity to the water, lying only a few miles from the shifting tides. The light here carries a silver quality, thinning out the shadows until the trees and fields seem to exhale a quiet, rhythmic gray that defines the character of the day.

Fort Dick maintains a steady, deliberate pace, anchored by a history of resource reliance and the slow turning of the seasons. Agriculture and the proximity to the timber industry—supported by the vast reaches of Six Rivers National Forest—have long shaped the ways in which people labor upon this earth. Residents often look toward the Smith River Fishing Access for a connection to the water, or find tranquility near the still, dark surface of Lake Talawa, where the silence is broken only by the call of migratory birds. The area remains distinct for its rugged, unadorned resilience, a place where life is measured not by the velocity of the modern world, but by the steady, persistent growth of the woods and the unchanging pulse of the nearby coast.

About This Fort Dick Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fort Dick, California. Coordinates: 41.869526, -124.167206. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Fort Dick includes the ZIP code (95538), telephone area code (530), county seat of Del Norte County (Crescent City), and school district assignment (Del Norte County Unified School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.