Volta is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
and
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
Merced County
Merced County ( ) is a county located in the northern San Joaquin Valley section of the Central Valley, in the U.S. state of California.
As of the 2020 census, the population was 281,202. The county seat is Merced. The county is named after ...
,
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 ...
, United States.
It is located west-northwest of
Los Banos at an elevation of .
The population was 366 at the
2020 census,
up from 246 at the 2010 census.
From 1858 to 1861,
Lone Willow Station a swing station for the
Butterfield Overland Mail
Butterfield Overland Mail (officially Overland Mail Company)Waterman L. Ormsby, edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum, "The Butterfield Overland Mail", The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1991. was a stagecoach service in ...
, was located east of here on the west bank of
Mud Slough, 18 miles east of the
St. Louis Ranch Station and 13 miles northwest of
Temple's Ranch
Temple's Ranch, was the ranch and a home of F. P. F. Temple, a wealthy land owner in Los Angeles County, with large business and land holdings of thousands of acres in Madera County and Fresno County including this ranch in Fresno County near the ...
station.
A post office operated at Volta from 1890 to 1972.
The name was from the
Volta Improvement Company.
Geography
Volta is in southwestern Merced County, between Los Banos to the southeast and
Santa Nella to the west. It is on the western side of California's
Central Valley.
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 , 98.56% of it land, and 1.44% of it water.
Demographics
The
2020 United States census reported that Volta had a population of 366. The population density was . The racial makeup of Volta was 157 (42.9%)
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 ...
, 2 (0.5%)
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 ...
, 3 (0.8%)
Native American, 1 (0.3%)
Asian, 0 (0.0%)
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 ...
, 138 (37.7%) from
other races, and 65 (17.8%) from two or more races.
Hispanic or Latino
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of any race were 252 persons (68.9%).
The whole population lived in households. There were 98 households, out of which 48 (49.0%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 64 (65.3%) were married-couple households, 5 (5.1%) 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 (19.4%) had a female householder with no partner present, and 10 (10.2%) had a male householder with no partner present. 13 households (13.3%) were one person, and 10 (10.2%) were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 3.73.
[ There were 80 ]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 ...
(81.6% of all households).[
There were 110 housing units at an average density of , of which 98 (89.1%) were occupied. Of these, 56 (57.1%) were owner-occupied, and 42 (42.9%) were occupied by renters.][
]
References
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Census-designated places in Merced County, California
Butterfield Overland Mail in California
Census-designated places in California