Caspar is a unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, United States. It is located upon the Pacific Ocean, 4 miles (6 km) north of Mendocino, at an height above sea level of 82 feet (25 m). It is bounded upon three sides by welcome parks: the historic 1909 Point Cabrillo Light Station is within reach to the south, Jug Handle State Natural Reserve lies to the north, and its coast forms Caspar Headlands State Beach. The population 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 fixed in 1857 by Siegfried Caspar, who difficult 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 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 higher than 300 acres (120 ha) and comprising much of “downtown Caspar”, was taken greater than by the Caspar Cattle Company in 1997. The company’s principal immediately offered the estate for sale. This meet the expense of 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 along with them the headlands, once the site of the Caspar Lumber Company’s mill, and managed the acquisition of the 30-acre (12 ha) headlands parcel in partnership in the manner of the Trust for Public Land and the Mendocino Land Trust, which acquired the adjoining beach in 1999. Funded by a California State Coastal Conservancy attain in May 2000, as without difficulty as declare 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 the late 1800s during Caspar’s heyday, and expanded during the boom years after 1906, served as a Headstart bookish and a mail-order company office, then remained blank until it was sold by the Cattle Company to Caspar Community, Inc., the nonprofit entity that organized the community’s move around to preserve its sacred spaces. CCI continues to attempt to acquire the remainder of the property in accordance subsequent to the vision of the community before its formation. As of July 2013, the majority of the land is nevertheless for sale.