POPULATION: 133,302

INCORPORATION DATE: 1853

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

• District 1 – Rex Bohn
• District 2 – Michelle Bushnell
• District 3 – Mike Wilson
• District 4 – Natalie Arroyo
• District 5 – Steve Madrone

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: General Law

HUMBOLDT. County seat, Eureka. Created May 12, 1853. The county derived its name from Humboldt Bay which was entered by a sea otter party in 1806, but was not rediscovered until 1849. In 1850, Douglas Ottinger and Hans Buhne entered the bay, naming it Humboldt in honor of the great naturalist and world explorer, Baron Alexander von Humboldt.