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Phillipsville is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California - it is an unincorporated census place, not an incorporated city.

Phillipsville sits on the South Fork of the Eel River, about 7.5 miles north of Garberville, at an elevation of 289 feet.

Phillipsville is the southernmost town on the Avenue of the Giants, the famous scenic drive through Humboldt County's old-growth redwood groves.

The community was originally called Philips Flat, in honor of George Stump Philips, who settled at the site in 1865 - it was later renamed Kettintelbe after a local Native American village before reverting to Phillipsville when its post office reopened in 1948.

A post office has operated at Phillipsville in two stretches - from 1883 to 1912, and from 1948 to the present day.

Near Phillipsville stands the Chimney Tree, a redwood named for its resemblance to a chimney.

The 2020 census counted 124 residents in Phillipsville, down from 140 in 2010 - the community first appeared as a census-designated place in the 2010 census.

Phillipsville had 44 households in 2020, with an average household size of 2.82 people, and about 93% of its occupied homes were owner-occupied.

Phillipsville is an older community - its median age at the 2020 census was 54.5 years.

Phillipsville has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate with extremely wet winters - it averages about 54 inches of precipitation a year - and hot, dry summers with average highs of 85 to 90 degrees but nights that cool to around 50 degrees.