Yurok Reservation | |
Official Name: | Yurok Indian Reservation |
Settlement Type: | Native American Reservation |
Seat: | Klamath, California |
Seat Type: | Administrative Capital |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 88.08 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 84.73 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 3.35 |
Population Total: | 1,236 |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | California |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | Del Norte Humboldt |
Subdivision Type2: | Counties |
Subdivision Name3: | Yurok |
Subdivision Type3: | Tribal Nation |
Governing Body: | Yurok Tribe Tribal Council |
Leader Name1: | Frankie Myers |
Leader Title1: | Vice Chairman |
Leader Name: | Joe James |
Leader Title: | Chairman |
Website: | https://www.yuroktribe.org/ |
The Yurok Indian Reservation is a Native American reservation for the Yurok people located in parts of Del Norte and Humboldt counties, California, on a 44miles stretch of the Klamath River. It is one of a very few tribes who have never been removed from their ancestral lands in California.
The 84.714mi2 reservation is serviced by California Route 169 from the south, which dead ends within the reservation. It is bordered by the Hoopa Indian Reservation to the south, adjacent to Redwood National Park to the west and completely surrounds the Resighini Rancheria. The 2000 census reported a resident population of 1,103 persons on reservation territory, mostly in the community of Klamath, at the reservation's north end. As of the 2010 Census the population was 1,238 and as of the 2020 census it was 1,236.[1] [2]