residents commute to Fortuna or Eureka for work. Geography The town is adjacent to Yager Creek which joins the Van Duzen slightly downstream from Carlotta. The ZIP Code is 95528. The community is inside area code 707. The nearest airport is the Rohnerville Airport in Fortuna. Education Carlotta is the seat of the Cuddeback Union School District, and home of the Cuddeback School, a public K-8 school located just off Route 36. Government In the state legislature, Carlotta is in , and . Federally, Carlotta is in . Notable residents Robert F. Fisher lived in Carlotta from 1912 until his death in 1969. He served as California State Assemblyman for Humboldt County from 1926 to 1932 and was the last surviving serviceman of the Spanish–American War in Humboldt County. Resident and convicted sex offender Melvin Just was the subject of a 2000 documentary film, Just, Melvin: Just Evil by James Ronald Whitney, his step grandson. Whitney's sisters, cousins, aunts, extended step family and ambiguously complicit grandmother detail decades of Just's sexual abuse. The film also references Just's long suspected murder of a county social worker sent to check on the family. References Populated places established in 1903 Unincorporated communities in Humboldt County, California 1903 establishments in California Unincorporated communities in California