Naples is an

unincorporated area 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 ...

Santa Barbara County, California Santa Barbara County, officially the County of Santa Barbara (), is a County (United States), county located in Southern California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 448,229. The county seat is Santa Barbara, California ...

, United States on the south portion of the

Gaviota Coast The Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County, California is a rural coastline along the Santa Barbara Channel roughly bounded by Goleta Point on the south and the north boundary of the county on the north. This last undeveloped stretch of Southe ...

. Also known as Dos Pueblos Ranch, it is located on U.S. Highway 101 west-northwest of

Isla Vista Isla Vista ( ; , "Island View") is an unincorporated community in Santa Barbara County, California, in the United States. As of 2020 census, the community had a population of 15,500. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has ...

. Dos Pueblos refers to two Chumash villages that existed when in 1542 explorer

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wrote about seeing them. The villages of

Kuya'mu Kuya'mu was a Native American village of the Chumash people located on the Gaviota Coast in the modern-day county of Santa Barbara, California in the United States. In 1602, the Viscaino expedition stopped by the Goleta Valley and the nearby Ch ...

and

Mikiw Mikiw was a Native American village of the Chumash people located in the modern-day county of Santa Barbara, California in the United States. In 1602, the Sebastián Vizcaíno expedition stopped by the Goleta Valley and the nearby Chumash villa ...

were across the creek from each other. A subdivision map was filed to create a community but the parcels were not developed.

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Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Santa Barbara County, California {{SantaBarbaraCountyCA-geo-stub