census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in
Stanislaus County
Stanislaus County ( ; ) is a county located in the San Joaquin Valley of the U.S. state of California. As of 2023, its estimated population is 564,404. The county seat is Modesto.
Stanislaus County makes up the Modesto metropolitan statistic ...
,
California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
. Crows Landing is about
southwest of
Modesto
Modesto ( ; ) is the county seat and largest city of Stanislaus County, California, United States. With a population of 218,069 according to 2022 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, it is the 19th-most populous city in California.
Modesto is locate ...
. Crows Landing sits at an elevation of . The 2020 United States census reported Crows Landing's population was 322.
History
Crows Landing was founded on the
San Joaquin River
The San Joaquin River ( ; ) is the longest river of Central California. The long river starts in the high Sierra Nevada and flows through the rich agricultural region of the northern San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suisun Bay, San Francis ...
, as a river landing or crossing, by John Crow, who was born in Missouri in 1830 and died in California in 1917; John Crow's father, Walter Crow, had left Missouri to mine gold in California in 1849. John Crow emigrated from Missouri to California in a covered wagon
with his wife Margaret Malinda Bodenhamer, born in 1837 in
Quincy, Illinois
Quincy ( ) is a city in Adams County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. Located on the Mississippi River, the population was 39,463 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, down from 40,633 in 2010. The Quincy, Illinois, mic ...
and died in California in 1918. The Crows had 12 children, but not all survived to adulthood.
In 1887, Crows Landing was relocated to its present site, 4 miles west of its original location, to be served by the
Southern Pacific Railroad
The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials) was an American Railroad classes#Class I, Class I Rail transport, railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was oper ...
.
Members of the Crow family still live at Crows Landing and operate a
walnut
A walnut is the edible seed of any tree of the genus '' Juglans'' (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, '' Juglans regia''. They are accessory fruit because the outer covering of the fruit is technically an i ...
farm.
The small
airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...
at Crows Landing, west of town, was formerly used as an auxiliary landing site for training
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
pilots from
Naval Air Station Alameda
Naval Air Station Alameda (NAS Alameda) was a United States Navy Naval Air Station mostly in Alameda, California, with a slight portion of it within San Francisco proper, on San Francisco Bay.
NAS Alameda had two runways: 13–31 measuring and ...
, and later for
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...
's experimental aircraft from the
Ames Research Center
The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laborat ...
in Mountain View. In 2000, control of the airfield was transferred to Stanislaus County. The airfield has been closed since 2011 and was used for testing cars, trucks, aircraft, and for storage. In 2022, ''
The Modesto Bee
''The Modesto Bee'' is a California newspaper. It has about 70 employees and is delivered throughout central California, reaching places such as Modesto, Turlock, Oakdale, Ceres, Patterson and Sonora
Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y ...
'' reported that Stanislaus County announced plans to redevelop the former airfield into a business park.
Geography
According to the
United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal statistical system, U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and American economy, econ ...
, the CDP covers an area of , all of it land.
Demographics
The 2020 United States census reported that Crows Landing had a population of 322. The population density was . The racial makeup of Crows Landing was 103 (32.0%)
White
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wa ...
, 7 (2.2%)
African American
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...
Pacific Islander
Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the list of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Islands. As an ethnic group, ethnic/race (human categorization), racial term, it is used to describe th ...
, 164 (50.9%) from other races, and 47 (14.6%) from two or more races.
Hispanic or Latino
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of any race were 243 persons (75.5%).
The whole population lived in households. There were 100 households, out of which 31 (31.0%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 45 (45.0%) were married-couple households, 4 (4.0%) were
cohabiting
Cohabitation is an arrangement where people who are not legally married live together as a couple. They are often involved in a romantic or sexually intimate relationship on a long-term or permanent basis. Such arrangements have become incr ...
couple households, 19 (19.0%) had a female householder with no partner present, and 32 (32.0%) had a male householder with no partner present. 29 households (29.0%) were one person, and 11 (11.0%) were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 3.22. There were 68
families
Family (from ) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictability, structure, and safety as ...
(68.0% of all households).
The age distribution was 86 people (26.7%) under the age of 18, 23 people (7.1%) aged 18 to 24, 85 people (26.4%) aged 25 to 44, 99 people (30.7%) aged 45 to 64, and 29 people (9.0%) who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 37.0years. For every 100 females, there were 161.8 males.
There were 113 housing units at an average density of , of which 100 (88.5%) were occupied. Of these, 47 (47.0%) were owner-occupied, and 53 (53.0%) were occupied by renters.