Fieldbrook (formerly Bokman’s Prairie and Buckman’s Prairie) is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. It is located 7 miles (11 km) north-northeast of Arcata, at an height above sea level of 203 feet (62 m). The population was at 860 at the 2010 census.

Fieldbrook is located upon California’s North Coast, approximately 300 miles (480 km) north of San Francisco and 65 miles (105 km) south of the Oregon own up line. Located on the edge of the dense redwood forest, the area was once home to well-off lumber companies. Fieldbrook is 6 miles (10 km) east of the larger, unincorporated seaside town of McKinleyville and the Arcata-Eureka Airport, approximately 10 miles (16 km) northeast of the harbor city of Arcata, and about 18.2 miles (29.3 km) north of the city of Eureka, the Humboldt County seat. Fieldbrook is at the northern edge of the McKinleyville-Arcata-Eureka-Fortuna corridor along US Highway 101, where more or less eighty percent of Humboldt County’s population lives and most of its businesses are located. The ZIP Code is 95519. The community is inside Place code 707.

Fieldbrook is located at the right-angle fiddle with where Murray Road becomes Fieldbrook Road. In the mid-1990s, Fieldbrook was a stereotypical drowsy country hamlet, with junk cars sitting in weedy yards along the main road in one block and goats grazing to the side of a church in the next. With the fall of the local timber industry, the accrual of remote full of zip professionals, and the emergence of the North Coast as a retirement destination, Fieldbrook next its serene weather (summer temperatures seldom exceed 75 °F (24 °C) and winter nights rarely Fall below 38 °F (3 °C) has undergone gentrification. Sprawling ranch-style (single-story) homes on isolated 5-acre (20,000 m) lots wedged amid timber tracts are selling for $500,000, and at least one 40-acre (160,000 m²) timber tract has become a gated community.

The few blocks of paved and unpaved roads that comprise Fieldbrook property add up modest homes, an elementary speculative and two churches, as skillfully as a general store, a winery and an apple orchard that host public events. Larger residences whose owners identify like the Fieldbrook community continue south along Fieldbrook Road as it heads inland and uphill 6 miles (10 km) to the small city of Blue Lake (population 1,200) at the foot of the Coast Range. The road connects there when State Highway 299, a winding route that crosses the mountains and connects later than Interstate 5 in Redding, about 90 miles (140 km) east.