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Arcata

American  
[ahr-key-tuh] / ɑrˈkeɪ tə /

noun

  1. a town in NW California.


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They lived for many years in Arcata, northern California, surrounded by sweeping forests of redwood trees, where Wayne worked as a landscape architect, while Stella was a primary school teacher.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2025

In Arcata, a remote town in northern California, a raft of officer departures and retirements forced local leaders to collapse policing to core services and cut back on a community-oriented response unit.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2024

Hospitals in El Centro, Visalia and Arcata have publicly announced cutbacks in services.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2023

New flag order: The Arcata City Council unanimously voted to include an Earth flag atop the United States and California flags on all city flagpoles, raising constitutional questions, The North Coast Journal reports.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2023

John Preston, a tanner of Arcata, would accumulate thirty dollars in gold and with it buy fifty dollars in legal-tender notes.

From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert)