North Fork, California

United States

North Fork, California anchors 24 connections to 1645 other places across 8 topics, with film and frontier history leading the mix. The Peckinpah family settled here in 1884, and Sam Peckinpah later drew on that heritage for Western films including The Wild Bunch and the TV series The Rifleman, whose fictional town borrows the name. Logging shaped the local economy, from a cogeneration mill to the annual Loggers Jamboree. Nearby Bass Lake and Los Angeles share many of these threads.

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