Crows Landing, California
Crows Landing is a census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California. Crows Landing is about
southwest of Modesto. Crows Landing sits at an elevation of. The 2020 United States census reported Crows Landing's population was 322.
History
Crows Landing was founded on the San Joaquin River, as a river landing or crossing, by John Crow, who was born in Missouri in 1830 and died in California in 1917; John Crow's father, Walter Crow, had left Missouri to mine gold in California in 1849. John Crow emigrated from Missouri to California in a covered wagonwith his wife Margaret Malinda Bodenhamer, born in 1837 in Quincy, Illinois and died in California in 1918. The Crows had 12 children, but not all survived to adulthood.
In 1887, Crows Landing was relocated to its present site, 4 miles west of its original location, to be served by the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Members of the Crow family still live at Crows Landing and operate a walnut farm.
The small airport at Crows Landing, west of town, was formerly used as an auxiliary landing site for training World War II pilots from Naval Air Station Alameda, and later for NASA's experimental aircraft from the Ames Research Center in Mountain View. In 2000, control of the airfield was transferred to Stanislaus County. The airfield has been closed since 2011 and was used for testing cars, trucks, aircraft, and for storage. In 2022, The Modesto Bee reported that Stanislaus County announced plans to redevelop the former airfield into a business park.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of, all of it land.Demographics
The 2020 [United States census] reported that Crows Landing had a population of 322. The population density was. The racial makeup of Crows Landing was 103 White, 7 African American, 1 Native American, 0 Asian, 0 Pacific Islander, 164 from other races, and 47 from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 243 persons.The whole population lived in households. There were 100 households, out of which 31 had children under the age of 18 living in them, 45 were married-couple households, 4 were cohabiting couple households, 19 had a female householder with no partner present, and 32 had a male householder with no partner present. 29 households were one person, and 11 were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 3.22. There were 68 families.
The age distribution was 86 people under the age of 18, 23 people aged 18 to 24, 85 people aged 25 to 44, 99 people aged 45 to 64, and 29 people who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 37.0years. For every 100 females, there were 161.8 males.
There were 113 housing units at an average density of, of which 100 were occupied. Of these, 47 were owner-occupied, and 53 were occupied by renters.