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Hill Valley is a fictional town in California that serves as the setting of the Back to the Future trilogy and its animated spin-off series . In the trilogy, Hill Valley is seen in four different time periods – 1885, 1955, 1985, and 2015 – as well as in a dystopian alternate 1985 . The films contain many sight gags , verbal innuendos and detailed set design elements, from which a detailed and consistent history of the area can be derived.

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66-522: The city name "Hill Valley" is a joke, being an oxymoron . However, an early script for Back to the Future Part II mentioned that Hill Valley was named after its founder, William "Bill" Hill. For Back to the Future , the producers considered filming the town square scenes in the real city of Petaluma, California , but soon realized it would be prohibitively expensive and impractical to alter

132-520: A prohibitionism era mafioso, avoid his lengthy incarceration for illegal consumption and sale of alcohol. In the alternate 1986 Biff Tannen has two brothers, and the Tannen family is a recognized crime family, ruling over Hill Valley with an iron grip. In yet another alternate history, branching off the events of Back to the Future: The Game , in 1931 a teen Emmett Brown, fell in love with

198-577: A "Spinner" from Blade Runner (1982). Griff's car is a modified BMW 633 , which was never sold in the convertible form seen in the film. For Back to the Future Part III , Hill Valley 1885 was filmed in Sonora, California . The producers were able to use the land rent-free under an agreement to leave the set buildings on site. All buildings except the clock tower were left intact after production completed. On November 6, 1990, an arson fire on

264-534: A Black mayor. In Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film , Adilifu Nama writes, "The film performs robust semiotic work around race by symbolically associating the degraded cityscape of Hill Valley with inept black leadership. Marty's personal family crisis, marked by a socially impotent father and an alcoholic mother, is mirrored in the condition of Hill Valley. Boarded-up businesses, schoolyard graffiti, and an adult-video bookstore placed in

330-599: A corrupt family man as well as town ruler. He helped Richard Nixon remain President of the United States until at least 1985. Biff's effect on history affected the whole world – in this version of history, the Vietnam War was still ongoing by May 1983. According to the original script for Back to the Future Part II a partial view of the alternate 2015 was also to be depicted. By this time Biff now owns half

396-460: A deliberate choice on the part of the filmmakers. The production designer of Back to the Future Part II , Rick Carter, is quoted in a DVD extra as saying, "The future is built on the present." Director Robert Zemeckis adds that the continuity between the different eras in Hill Valley's history is an example of the adage, "the more things change, the more they stay the same". The following is

462-462: A fire at Whittier High School, California , where some, mostly exterior scenes were filmed, destroyed the men's gym there. On June 1, 2008, another fire destroyed part of the rebuilt Courthouse Square backlot and damaged the clock tower. Other real-life shooting locations of Hill Valley landmarks include: According to an 1885 Central Pacific Railroad map in Back to the Future Part III , Hill Valley

528-407: A ghost town with herself as the only resident. As a result of her actions, Marty and Doc witness 1931 Hill Valley disappear and be replaced by a valley made of hills, implying that this was how Hill Valley got its name in the first place. Again, Marty and Doc manage to restore the continuity, that now sports minor alterations: Arthur and Silvia, Marty's grandparents, prepone their marriage to 1931. It

594-410: A list of such places. When a place is not seen or mentioned in a movie, it is marked unknown . Some buildings shown in 1885 scenes are actually located further down the street in an area not shown in the first two movies. Back to the Future has been criticized for presenting an idealized 1950s setting almost entirely populated by White people, and contrasting this with a more troubled 1985 town run by

660-579: A number of single-word oxymorons built from "dependent morphemes" (i.e. no longer a productive compound in English, but loaned as a compound from a different language), as with pre-posterous (lit. "with the hinder part before", compare hysteron proteron , " upside-down ", " head over heels ", " ass-backwards " etc.) or sopho-more (an artificial Greek compound, lit. "wise-foolish"). The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective – noun combination of two words, but they can also be devised in

726-479: A real place to suit the different eras. Instead, filming was completed on the Universal Studios backlot , where they had more control. The town square set was called Mockingbird Square after the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird , but was later known as Courthouse Square . It had been used for many films and television shows dating back to 1948's An Act of Murder , including the first 1959 episode of

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792-560: A word or in a phrase that is a self-contradiction . As a rhetorical device , an oxymoron illustrates a point to communicate and reveal a paradox . A general meaning of "contradiction in terms" is recorded by the 1902 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The term oxymoron is first recorded as Latinized Greek oxymōrum , in Maurus Servius Honoratus (c. AD 400); it is derived from

858-443: Is a technological dystopia , where Emmett Brown oversees a fascist regime, controlling every single activity of his citizens, routinely brainwashed and spied over. In this new Hill Valley, in a reversal of their usual roles, Marty McFly is a square , serious and devoted to Emmett Brown to a fault, as the "original" McFly is dismayed to discover, and Jennifer is a rebellious rocker , a wild child with an unpredictable streak. Lorraine

924-563: Is a technologically advanced marvel, owned by a now rich and powerful Emmett Brown, with even the iconic Town Hall replaced by a huge pane with the E. Brown Industries symbol. Since in this timeline Emmett Brown never developed time-travel technology, the events of the original series never took place, and the Eastwood Ravine is still known as the Clayton Ravine , as no one saved Clara from her death. The last attempt to fix

990-542: Is again a mildly obese, inebriated sad woman. George has reverted to be the loser he is in the first, original timeline, although his oppressor is big government instead of Biff. George reprises his "peeping Tom" activities as seen in Back to the Future , under the guise of monitoring security camera footage for Citizen Brown. Biff Tannen is now one part of the Citizen Plus program, brainwashed into obedience. Hill Valley

1056-546: Is along the western edge of Mendocino County and is traversed by California State Route 1 , which leads north 6 miles (10 km) to Fort Bragg and south 4 miles (6 km) to Mendocino . Caspar Creek crosses the southern part of the community, entering the Pacific Ocean at Caspar Anchorage, a small cove which is bordered by Caspar State Beach. According to the United States Census Bureau ,

1122-574: Is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County , California , United States. It is located on the Pacific Ocean , 4 miles (6 km) north of Mendocino , at an elevation of 82 feet (25 m). It is bounded on three sides by state parks: the historic 1909 Point Cabrillo Light Station is nearby to the south, Jug Handle State Natural Reserve lies to the north, and its coast forms Caspar Headlands State Beach . The population

1188-424: Is an oxymoron. This is called an "opinion oxymoron" by Lederer (1990). The humor derives from implying that an assumption (which might otherwise be expected to be controversial or at least non-evident) is so obvious as to be part of the lexicon . An example of such a "comical oxymoron" is " educational television ": the humor derives entirely from the claim that it is an oxymoron by the implication that "television"

1254-416: Is depicted with a partial history. Due to the influence of the powerful and corrupt Biff Tannen , gambling was legalized in 1979. Tannen's toxic waste reclamation plants were built downtown, polluting the air and leading to pollution alerts to be issued. All of the local businesses in the downtown area closed or relocated and were replaced with strip clubs , porn theaters , and brothels . Tannen bought off

1320-756: Is located in Northern California in the Sierra Nevada . Dialogue in Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III places it in "Hill County", a fictional county in California. After Marty decides against racing Needles at the end of Back to the Future Part III, the zip code 95420 is visible on the letterhead of the printout Jennifer brought back with her from 2015 announcing Marty's termination from Cusco. This zip code corresponds with Caspar, California , an unincorporated community in Mendocino County . The following information

1386-523: Is not implied that any given object has the two opposing properties simultaneously. In some languages, it is not necessary to place a conjunction like and between the two antonyms; such compounds (not necessarily of antonyms) are known as dvandvas (a term taken from Sanskrit grammar ). For example, in Chinese, compounds like 男女 (man and woman, male and female, gender), 陰陽 ( yin and yang ), 善惡 (good and evil, morality) are used to indicate couples, ranges, or

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1452-726: Is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Other examples from English-language literature include: "hateful good" ( Chaucer , translating odibile bonum ) "proud humility" ( Spenser ), "darkness visible" ( Milton ), "beggarly riches" ( John Donne ), " damn with faint praise " ( Pope ), "expressive silence" ( Thomson , echoing Cicero 's Latin : cum tacent clamant , lit.   'when they are silent, they cry out'), "melancholy merriment" ( Byron ), "faith unfaithful", "falsely true" ( Tennyson ), "conventionally unconventional", "tortuous spontaneity" ( Henry James ) "delighted sorrow", "loyal treachery", and "scalding coolness" ( Hemingway ). In literary contexts,

1518-460: Is so trivial as to be inherently incompatible with "education". In a 2009 article called "Daredevil", Garry Wills accused William F. Buckley of popularizing this trend, based on the success of the latter's claim that "an intelligent liberal is an oxymoron". Examples popularized by comedian George Carlin in 1975 include "military intelligence" (a play on the lexical meanings of the term "intelligence", implying that "military" inherently excludes

1584-412: Is taken directly from places and events shown or mentioned in the three films: The town of Hill Valley was first settled in 1850 and incorporated in 1865. By the 1880s, it was connected by railroad to San Francisco . Construction of a new county courthouse was well underway in 1885, the setting of Back to the Future Part III , in which a new clock was dedicated for the building. The Shonash Ravine Bridge

1650-521: The Greek word ὀξύς oksús "sharp, keen, pointed" and μωρός mōros "dull, stupid, foolish"; as it were, "sharp-dull", "keenly stupid", or "pointedly foolish". The word oxymoron is autological , i.e., it is itself an example of an oxymoron. The Greek compound word ὀξύμωρον oksýmōron , which would correspond to the Latin formation, does not appear in any Ancient Greek works prior to

1716-481: The Universal Studios Hollywood backlot destroyed much of Courthouse Square , the setting in which all the other time periods were filmed. The Courthouse survived the devastation and other facades were reconstructed. Another fire on September 6, 1997 damaged Courthouse Square. The backlot facades were rebuilt, with the exception of the facades used for Hill Valley 1885. On February 14, 1999,

1782-472: The census of 2000, there were 317 people, 145 households, and 77 in the ZCTA 95420. The population density was 41/sq mi. There were 204 housing units, of which 20.3% were vacant, with 12.1% reserved for vacation/recreational use. The racial makeup of the ZCTA was 88% White , .6% Black or African American , .6% Native American , .6% Asian , 4.7% from other races, and 5.4% from two or more races. 3.5% of

1848-497: The meaning of sentences or phrases. One classic example of the use of oxymorons in English literature can be found in this example from Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet , where Romeo strings together thirteen in a row: O brawling love! O loving hate!   O anything of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity!   Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!   Still-waking sleep, that

1914-585: The 2015 sign has those of the Neighborhood Crime Watch eye logo and the 4-H Club clover logo. The "Welcome to Hill Valley" sign in 1985 does not contain any signage representing any clubs and mentions the name of Mayor Goldie Wilson. In the alternate 1985, Marty is seen walking over the sign, which has been knocked down and an 'E' has been spray painted over the 'I' in HILL VALLEY making the name HELL VALLEY. This sign does not display

1980-744: The CDP covers an area of 3.0 square miles (7.8 km ), all of it land. The census bureau definition of the area as a CDP may not precisely correspond to local understanding of the area with the same name. The 2010 United States Census reported that Caspar had a population of 509. The population density was 170.1 inhabitants per square mile (65.7/km ). The racial makeup of Caspar was 474 (93.1%) White , 3 (0.6%) African American , 0 (0.0%) Native American , 8 (1.6%) Asian , 0 (0.0%) Pacific Islander , 3 (0.6%) from other races , and 21 (4.1%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 15 persons (2.9%). The Census reported that 507 people (99.6% of

2046-532: The Caspar Cattle Company in 1997. The company's principal immediately offered the land for sale. This offer was facilitated by a professor and team of graduate student community planners from the University of California, Berkeley . The process early on committed to consensus and inclusive self-governance, and identified several sacred spaces, principal among them the headlands, once the site of

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2112-791: The Caspar Lumber Company's mill, and managed the acquisition of the 30-acre (12 ha) headlands parcel in partnership with the Trust for Public Land and the Mendocino Land Trust, which acquired the adjoining beach in 1999. Funded by a California State Coastal Conservancy grant in May 2000, as well as state and federal funds, the headlands were transferred to California State Parks and designated as Caspar Headlands State Reserve in June 2002. The Caspar Schoolhouse, built in

2178-491: The Courthouse building has been redressed over the years to suit the needs of a production. Many of the cars that appear in the 2015 scenes are either modified for the film or concept cars. Examples include Ford Probe , Saab EV-1 , Citroën DS 21 , Pontiac Banshee Concept , Pontiac Fiero and Volkswagen Beetle . Cars reused from other science fiction films include the "Star Car" from The Last Starfighter (1984) and

2244-490: The Future films, the area around the courthouse has developed into the downtown of Hill Valley. In front of the courthouse is a grass-covered town square, with stores, two movie theaters , Essex and Town, and cafés on the surrounding streets. Downtown also features a Texaco station, a Bank of America branch, and a Studebaker dealership. A key moment in the town's fictional history takes place on Saturday, November 12, 1955, at 10:04 p.m. PST, when lightning strikes

2310-508: The Future , "was to take a place and show what happens to it over a period of thirty years. What happened to everybody's home town is obviously the same thing. They built the mall out in the boonies, and killed all the business downtown, and everything changed." By the 21st century, the downtown area has experienced a revival. The courthouse has been converted into the Courthouse Mall. Businesses have begun to move back into and around

2376-547: The Town Theater is used for church services, and the courthouse is in a state of disrepair, and at night at least one homeless person (called "Red" by Marty) sleeps on the town square park benches. The grassy park outside of the courthouse has been converted into a parking lot. "That was always one of the major elements of the story even in its earliest incarnation," screenwriter Bob Gale says in The Making of Back to

2442-626: The Toyota dealership is now a Pontiac dealership, though in reality General Motors discontinued the Pontiac brand in 2010 as part of its bankruptcy . Signs that say "Welcome to Hill Valley" are seen in 1955, 1985 and 2015. Both 1955 and 2015 signs have symbols representing the Rotary , Kiwanis and Lions clubs. The 1955 sign has the logos of the YMCA , Jaycees , and Future Farmers of America while

2508-617: The alternate 1985. In Marty's original timeline, many of the town square businesses have moved or closed down by 1985. The new businesses which replaced them include a second-hand shop , a yoga studio, and an adult book store , and the Studebaker dealership becomes a Toyota dealership, but is still owned by the Statlers, though the Texaco station and Bank of America branch remained. The Essex movie theater now shows porno movies while

2574-428: The author does not usually signal the use of an oxymoron, but in rhetorical usage, it has become common practice to advertise the use of an oxymoron explicitly to clarify the argument, as in: In this example, "Epicurean pessimist" would be recognized as an oxymoron in any case, as the core tenet of Epicureanism is equanimity (which would preclude any sort of pessimist outlook ). However, the explicit advertisement of

2640-466: The center of town indicate that the Hill Valley of 1985 is suffering from severe economic and moral decline. Alongside these visual signifiers of socioeconomic crisis are posters of the Black mayor, Goldie Wilson, scattered throughout downtown Hill Valley." Oxymoron An oxymoron (plurals: oxymorons and oxymora ) is a figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposite meanings within

2706-515: The courthouse's clock tower, freezing the clock at 10:04. The clock is never repaired and becomes a local landmark, left in its non-functional state at the behest of the Hill Valley Preservation Society. In the revised timeline, the broken piece of ledge from Doc Brown's successful attempt to channel lightning from the clock tower is likewise never repaired, as can be seen when Marty returns to 1985 and in 2015, but not in

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2772-484: The damages involved with the events of Back to the Future: The Game ends with even a more radical change. Edna Strickland travels under an assumed name to 1876 to act as a moral guide of the newly founded Hill Valley. After a failed confrontation with Beauregard Tannen, a Confederate soldier who built and founded the Palace Saloon, she accidentally causes a conflagration that consumes Hill Valley, turning it into

2838-495: The formation of the Latin term. Oxymorons in the narrow sense are a rhetorical device used deliberately by the speaker and intended to be understood as such by the listener. In a more extended sense, the term "oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of " dead metaphors " ("barely clothed" or "terribly good"). Lederer (1990), in the spirit of "recreational linguistics", goes as far as to construct "logological oxymorons" such as reading

2904-475: The late 1800s during Caspar's heyday, and expanded during the boom years after 1906, served as a Headstart school and a mail-order company office, then remained empty until it was sold by the Cattle Company to Caspar Community, Inc., the nonprofit entity that organized the community's campaign to preserve its sacred spaces. CCI continues to attempt to acquire the remainder of the property in accordance with

2970-408: The mill can be seen on Caspar Beach south of the community. The mill was featured on the cover of a 1938 National Geographic magazine. Multiple heirs to the Caspar Lumber Company sold their holdings to Georgia-Pacific and a pair of private investors in 1989. Ownership of the central parcels, consisting of more than 300 acres (120 ha) and comprising much of "downtown Caspar", was taken over by

3036-500: The movie has been shut down and is now occupied by a 24 Hour Fitness center. The mall's name changed to Lone Pine Mall after Marty went back to 1985, because he accidentally destroyed one of the two baby pine trees for which it was named, as he fled an irate Old Man Peabody, whose barn the DeLorean crashed into upon arriving in 1955. In Back to the Future Part II , a nightmarish alternate version of Hill Valley, dubbed 1985A by Doc,

3102-676: The name of the mayor but instead the words "A Nice Place to Live" as seen in 1955. A sign referencing US Highway 395 is shown next to the Town Square in 1955. Twin Pines Mall is a shopping center located outside Hill Valley, where Doctor Emmett Brown first tests his time machine, making his dog Einstein the first time traveler in the world. The site where the mall was filmed for the movie is actually Puente Hills Mall , located in City of Industry , California. The J.C. Penney location seen in

3168-566: The police. Consequently, crime increased and biker gangs settled in the city. Hill Valley's public schools burned down and the courthouse was converted into Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise Casino and Hotel. The clock on the courthouse remains at 10:04, although despite the damage the Doc did to the tower's platform in 1955, for whatever reason, it now seems to have disappeared. Biff murdered George McFly, Marty's dad, on March 15, 1973, so that he could marry George's wife Lorraine, Marty's mom, making him

3234-430: The population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 145 households, out of which 19.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42% were married couples living together, 8.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.9% were non-families. 37.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size

3300-622: The population) lived in households, 2 (0.4%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized. There were 252 households, out of which 33 (13.1%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 109 (43.3%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 15 (6.0%) had a female householder with no husband present, 7 (2.8%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 28 (11.1%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships , and 5 (2.0%) same-sex married couples or partnerships . 88 households (34.9%) were made up of individuals, and 38 (15.1%) had someone living alone who

3366-583: The presence of "intelligence") and " business ethics " (similarly implying that the mutual exclusion of the two terms is evident or commonly understood rather than the partisan anti-corporate position). Similarly, the term "civil war" is sometimes jokingly referred to as an "oxymoron" (punning on the lexical meanings of the word "civil"). Other examples include "honest politician", "affordable caviar" (1993), "happily married" and " Microsoft Works " (2000). Listing of antonyms, such as " good and evil ", " great and small ", etc., does not create oxymorons, as it

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3432-429: The sci-fi series The Twilight Zone , called " Where Is Everybody? " The Hill Valley courthouse can be seen in the movies Bruce Almighty , Gremlins , Bye Bye Birdie , Sneakers , The Offspring's music video " Why Don't You Get a Job? ", an episode of Major Dad entitled "Who's That Blonde", and an episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer . The clock tower was a removable addition, one of many ways in which

3498-420: The state of California with his influence having gained his son, Biff Jr., the seat of governor and they uphold their power and corruption with an army of large, powerful cyborg police officers, which now has its 5 star resort in what would have been the courthouse mall in 2015. Another timeline, branching off the events of Back to the Future: The Game , sees Irving "Kid" Tannen, the father of Biff Tannen and

3564-401: The town square and the parking lot has been replaced by a pond. The clock on top of the courthouse is still preserved at 10:04 and the mall's logo is an illustration of a lightning bolt striking the clock tower. The Town Theater/Assembly of Christ building has been converted to an art museum with a mural painted on the front side of the building above the marquee. The Texaco station remains, while

3630-438: The trait that these are extremes of. The Italian pianoforte or fortepiano is an example from a Western language; the term is short for gravicembalo col piano e forte , as it were "harpsichord with a range of different volumes", implying that it is possible to play both soft and loud (as well as intermediate) notes, not that the sound produced is somehow simultaneously "soft and loud". Caspar, California Caspar

3696-461: The use of oxymorons opened up a sliding scale of less than obvious construction, ending in the " opinion oxymorons " such as " business ethics ". J. R. R. Tolkien interpreted his own surname as derived from the Low German equivalent of dull-keen (High German toll-kühn ) which would be a literal equivalent of Greek oxy-moron . "Comical oxymoron" is a humorous claim that something

3762-513: The vision of the community since its formation. As of July 2013, the majority of the land is still for sale. The Caspar post office opened in 1874 and closed on November 15, 1986, when postmaster Georgia Johnson retired. As of 2013, Caspar had a community center, church and a nightclub. The Caspar Inn existed continuously as a roadhouse from its founding during the heyday of the logging era in 1906 until its closure in February 2013. Caspar

3828-447: The word nook composed of "no" and "ok" or the surname Noyes as composed of "no" plus "yes", or refers to some oxymoronic candidates as puns through the conversion of nouns into verbs, as in "divorce court", or "press release". He refers to potential oxymora such as "war games", "peacekeeping missile", "United Nations", and "airline food" as opinion-based, because some may disagree that they contain an internal contradiction. There are

3894-409: The young journalist Edna Strickland: as a result she married Emmett, convincing him to pursue sociological and political goals. She managed to win him over by keeping him interested in science, but in a manner that his scientific skills could be used to control people instead of using science to understand mysteries and for the betterment of humanity. Under "Citizen Brown"'s influence, by 1985 Hill Valley

3960-420: Was $ 47,639. Males had a median income of $ 55,357 versus $ 27,841 for females. The per capita income for the ZCTA was $ 26,191. 22% of the population and 42.4% of families were below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 43.6% of those under the age of 18 were living below the poverty line. In the state legislature , Caspar is in the 2nd Senate District , represented by Democrat Mike McGuire , and

4026-443: Was 1936 in the original timeline. Doc Brown spends more time in 1986 and less traveling through time. Kid Tannen is now reformed, married to Edna Strickland and having a better influence over Biff. Many family businesses are passed down from generation to generation in Hill Valley. As a result, the city changes but remains similar from one generation to the next, as businesses are updated but rarely change. These recurring elements were

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4092-400: Was 2.14 and the average family size was 2.77. In the ZCTA the population was spread out, with 17% under the age of 18, 3.5% from 18 to 24, 23.6% from 25 to 44, 39.7% from 45 to 64, and 16.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 47 years. 47.6% of the population was male, 52.4 female. The median income for a household in the ZCTA was $ 37,813, and the median income for a family

4158-548: Was 500 at the 2020 census. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Caspar as a census-designated place (CDP). Caspar was settled in 1857 by Siegfried Caspar, who later sold the land to Jacob Green Jackson , one of the founders of the Caspar Lumber Company , which turned Caspar into a significant logging town in Northern California from 1864 to 1955. Pilings from

4224-506: Was 57.1 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.8 males. There were 336 housing units at an average density of 112.3 per square mile (43.4/km ), of which 164 (65.1%) were owner-occupied, and 88 (34.9%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 4.0%; the rental vacancy rate was 7.4%. 345 people (67.8% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 162 people (31.8%) lived in rental housing units. As of

4290-404: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.01. There were 131 families (52.0% of all households); the average family size was 2.47. The population was spread out, with 51 people (10.0%) under the age of 18, 15 people (2.9%) aged 18 to 24, 96 people (18.9%) aged 25 to 44, 199 people (39.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 148 people (29.1%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

4356-416: Was completed in the summer of 1886, around the same time the ravine was renamed Clayton Ravine in memory of Clara Clayton, a school teacher who died from falling into the chasm. In a revised timeline where Doc Brown saved Clara's life, the town renamed it Eastwood Ravine when it is believed that " Clint Eastwood " (an alias used by Marty McFly ) fell into the ravine. By 1955, as seen in the first two Back to

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