Samoa, California

Samoa
census-designated place
Houses in Samoa, August 2020
Samoa Location in California
Coordinates: 40°49′07″N 124°11′11″W / 40.81861°N 124.18639°W / 40.81861; -124.18639
Country	United States
State	California
County	Humboldt County
Area [1]
• Total	0.837 sq mi (2.167 km2)
• Land	0.837 sq mi (2.167 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)  0%
Elevation [2]	23 ft (7 m)
Population  (2020)[3]
• Total	229
• Density	270/sq mi (110/km2)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code[4]	95564
Area code	707
GNIS feature IDs	1656274; 2628788
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Samoa, California; U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Samoa, California

Samoa (formerly Brownsville) is a census-designated place^[5] in Humboldt County, California.^[2] It is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Eureka,^[6] at an elevation of 23 feet (7 m).^[2] Samoa is located in the northern peninsula of Humboldt Bay and is the site of the Samoa Cookhouse, one of the last remaining original, lumber-camp style cookhouses. The name Samoa is used interchangeably with the peninsula it occupies. The population was 258 at the 2010 census.