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Saticoy is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Ventura County, and nearly all of the historic town except its Old Town district has been annexed into the neighboring city of Ventura.

Saticoy's name comes from Sa'aqtik'oy, meaning 'it is sheltered from the wind,' a Ventureño Chumash village that was one of the largest settlements in the entire Chumash region.

The community lies within the 17,773-acre Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy, a Mexican land grant made to Manuel Jimeno Casarin on April 28, 1840.

American settlers arrived at the site in 1861, a school was operating by 1868, and the Saticoy post office was established in 1873.

The streets and lots of Old Town Saticoy were laid out in September 1887 on both sides of the newly opened Southern Pacific branch line running through the Santa Clara River Valley.

Two historic warehouses in Old Town, the Walnut Growers Association Warehouse and the Saticoy (Lima) Bean Warehouse, attest to the important role Saticoy once held in Ventura County's agricultural economy.

Saticoy's bridges over the Santa Clara River were repeatedly washed out, most dramatically by the flood wave from the collapse of the St. Francis Dam shortly before midnight on March 12, 1928.

At Cabrillo Village, a 1930s farm labor camp next to the river, 82 farmworker families bought their own deteriorating cottages in 1976 and formed the first cooperative housing association in Ventura County, in what was perhaps the first time U.S. farmworkers had purchased the camp they lived in.

The entire Saticoy CDP covers only about 0.37 square miles, yet the 2020 census packed 1,133 residents into it.

Saticoy has just 268 households, but they are large ones, averaging about 4.14 people each, and about 88% of residents are Hispanic or Latino.