The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Orcutt is named for William Warren Orcutt, the manager of the Geological, Land and Engineering Departments of the Union Oil Company. Known as the “Dean of Petroleum Geologists" Orcutt is credited with discovering fossilized prehistoric animal bones preserved in pools of asphalt on the Hancock Ranch. These would be the first of many fossils excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits. In commemoration of Orcutt's initial discovery, paleontologists named the La Brea Coyote in W.W. Orcutt's honor, Canis orcutti.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Orcutt’s history is told.
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Nothing in Orcutt is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Orcutt has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Minerva Club of Santa Maria in Santa Maria, 5.5 miles away.
Orcutt and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.