Orcutt is an unincorporated town located in the Santa Maria Valley in Santa Barbara County, California. Orcutt is named for William Warren Orcutt, the manager of the Geological, Land and Engineering Departments of the Union Oil Company,and was founded in 1906.
The population of Orcutt was 35,262 at the 2010 census, up from 28,830 at the 2000 census.
Orcutt is credited with discovering fossilized prehistoric animal bones preserved in pools of asphalt on the Hancock Ranch. These would be the first of many fossils excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits. In commemoration of Orcutt’s initial discovery, paleontologists named the La Brea Coyote in W.W. Orcutt’s honor, Canisorcutti.
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