Talmage is the site of the Mendocino State Mental Hospital ( formerly the Mendocino State Asylum for the Insane ), the destination for inmates charged with crimes but found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Ukiah ( ; formerly, Ukiah City ) is the county seat and largest city of Mendocino County, California.

Boonville ( formerly, The Corners and Kendall's City ) is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Mendocino County, California, United States.

* Mendocino, California, formerly Big River

Elk ( formerly, Greenwood and Elk River ) is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California.

Gualala ( formerly, Guadala, Walhalla, and Wallala ) is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County in the U. S. state of California.

Hopland ( formerly Sanel ) is a census-designated place in Mendocino County, California.

Prior to 1850, a Pomo settlement named Buldam was located near Mendocino on the north bank of the Big River.

Mendocino Woodlands consists of approximately of land along the Little North Fork of the Big River, and is surrounded to the north, east, and west by the 50, 000 acre ( 200 km² ) Jackson Demonstration State Forest.

The major coastal hydrographic features are Bodega Bay, the mouth of the Russian River, and the mouth of the Gualala River, at the border with Mendocino County.

In the summer of 1857, First Lieutenant Horatio G. Gibson, then serving at the Presidio of San Francisco, established a military post on the Mendocino Indian Reservation approximately one and one-half miles north of the Noyo River.

Other principal routes in the region include State Route 99, which runs along the valley's eastern edge, roughly parallel to I-5, from Sacramento until its northern terminus in Red Bluff ; State Route 20, which traverses the valley from west to east on its route from State Route 1 in Mendocino County to the Donner Pass ; State Route 49, named in honor of the California Gold Rush and running through many old mining towns in the foothills of the valley ; and State Route 45, which runs along the course of the Sacramento River roughly ten miles ( 20 km ) east of I-5.

The grape was first brought to California by expatriate Italians, and is most popular in Mendocino County, Russian River Valley AVA, Napa Valley AVA, Santa Cruz Mountains AVA, Sta.

* Little River, California, Mendocino County

* Elk River, California, former name of Elk, Mendocino County, California

Encompassing 315 square miles ( 816 km² ), the Navarro River watershed is the largest coastal basin in Mendocino County.

Sockeye salmon ranges as far south as the Columbia River in the eastern Pacific ( though individuals have been spotted as far south as the 10 Mile River on the Mendocino Coast of California ) and northern Hokkaidō Island in Japan in the western Pacific, and as far north as Bathurst Inlet in the Canadian Arctic in the east and the Anadyr River in Siberia in the west.

The Navarro River is a river in Mendocino County, California.

Albion, Little River, and Mendocino lie to the north, and Manchester and Point Arena to the south.

The Alexander Valley covers a broad expanse of land east of the Russian River consisting of the watershed that runs southeast from the Mendocino County line down to the boundaries of the Chalk Hill AVA.

There SR 20 turns east again, crossing the Russian River, passing the north shore of Lake Mendocino, and rising to a summit via the East Fork Russian River and Cold Creek.

The car plunged 130 feet into the mouth of the Navarro River in Mendocino County, California.

The Mattole, including the Bear River Indians, are a group of Native Americans traditionally living on the Mattole and Bear rivers in the vicinity of Cape Mendocino, within the present Humboldt County, California.

Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua, for the sake of world peace, undertook an over six hundred mile three steps one bow pilgrimage from Los Angeles area to City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Mendocino area, repeatedly taking three steps and one bow to cover the entire journey.

It is part of a Sister City exchange program with Mendocino, California.

( Ballot Measure Q in Humboldt, northwest Mendocino and western Trinity counties ; Ballot Measure B in Del Norte County ) to allow issuance of $ 40, 320, 000 in bond funding to upgrade and renovate facilities at the main campus in Eureka and the branch campuses in Crescent City and Fort Bragg.

As the county seat, the city is a home to regional government offices, including the California Highway Patrol, California Department of Motor Vehicles, the United States Bureau of Reclamation and the main offices of the Mendocino National Forest, which comprises about one million acres of Federal land located mostly in mountainous terrain west of Willows.

Cobb borders to the SE Napa County, Sonoma to the West, Mendocino to the N and Colusa to the E. The zip code is 95426.

The Balian Mansion is located just east of Allen Avenue at the 3-point junction of Mendocino Street, Mendocino Lane, and Glenview Terrace.

Covelo is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Mendocino County, California, United States.

Fort Bragg is a city located in coastal Mendocino County, California along State Route 1, the major north-south highway along the Pacific Coast.

The city is also home to the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, a garden along the coastal bluffs.

The Mendocino Chocolate Company, owned by the Keaton family, makes a variety of chocolate and fudges in the homestyle fashion, and is based in what was once the local Bank of America.

The Mendocino Cookie Company, owned by the Alarcon family, is a cookie and coffee cafe located near the front of the local company store.

Laytonville is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Mendocino County, California, United States.

Mendocino is located south of Fort Bragg, at an elevation of 154 feet ( 47 m ).

Mendocino Presbyterian Church on Main Street, dedicated on July 5, 1868, is one of the oldest continuously-used Protestant churches in California, and is designated as California Historical Landmark # 714.

Since 1987, Mendocino has been the site of the Mendocino Music Festival, a classically-based but musically diverse series of concerts that is held annually in a huge circus type performance tent on the town's Main Street in the Mendocino Headlands State Park.

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Mendocino is home to a large number of bed and breakfasts.

In the state legislature Mendocino is located in the 2nd Senate District, represented by Democrat Noreen Evans, and in the 1st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Wesley Chesbro.

Federally, Mendocino is located in California's 1st congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D + 10 and is represented by Democrat Mike Thompson.

The main character Jessica Fletcher's home in the series was an actual home in Mendocino and is now a bed and breakfast under the name " Blair House.