Port Kenyon | |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | California#USA |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in California |
Pushpin Image: | California Locator Map with US.PNG |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | California |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Humboldt County |
Coordinates: | 40.595°N -124.2797°W |
Elevation M: | 4 |
Elevation Ft: | 13 |
Port Kenyon is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located 1.5miles northwest of Ferndale, at an elevation of 13 feet (4 m).
A post office operated at Port Kenyon from 1886 to 1899 and from 1903 to 1913. The town was founded by John Gardner Kenyon in 1876. The town was initially a major point of shipping for locally-raised dairy products; it also had a fish cannery.[1] After silting of the Salt River and repeated flooding, the port declined in the 1890s.