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Fields Landing is a small unincorporated census-designated place on Humboldt Bay in Humboldt County, about 6 miles south-southwest of downtown Eureka at an elevation of just 13 feet.

The town was established in 1862 by Waterman Field, a Humboldt County resident since 1861 who owned 160 acres there and built a dock to ship his farm products, giving the place its name; it was formerly known as South Bay, South Bay Station, and Adele.

The community sits within the original territory of the Wiyot tribe, and the bay area in front of it was a prime exporter of agricultural products from 1857 to 1900.

In the 1880s docks were built at Fields Landing for shipping redwood and other timber, and from 1940 to 1951 a whaling station operated in the town.

The 2020 census counted 287 people in Fields Landing living in just 139 households, with an average household size of about 2.06 people and roughly 54% of homes owner-occupied.

Fields Landing first appeared as a census-designated place in the 2010 census, when it had 276 residents, and the whole community covers only about 0.28 square miles.

Two shipping terminals operate in Fields Landing: the Fields Landing Terminal with a dock about 900 feet long, and the Humboldt Bay Forest Products dock at about 600 feet, plus a public boat ramp for smaller craft.

Fishing and timber founded the local economy; a seafood processing plant here shipped over $1.5 million worth of groundfish in 2000, though tourism and timber were the major industries by 2013.

Local children attend schools in nearby Eureka, and Fields Landing is the nearest community by road to the main campus of the College of the Redwoods.

U.S. Highway 101 is the only roadway into Fields Landing, and the Northwestern Pacific Railroad line built through in 1914 acted as a dike that let the surrounding tidal marshes be converted to farmland.