Crows Landing is a census-designated place (CDP) in Stanislaus County, California.

[2] The 2020 United States census reported Crows Landing's population was 322.

In 1887, Crows Landing was relocated to its present site, 4 miles west of its original location, to be served by the Southern Pacific Railroad.

[3] The small airport at Crows Landing, west of town, was formerly used as an auxiliary landing site for training World War II pilots from Naval Air Station Alameda, and later for NASA's experimental aircraft from the Ames Research Center in Mountain View.

In 2022, The Modesto Bee reported that Stanislaus County announced plans to redevelop the former airfield into a business park.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 3.2 square miles (8.3 km2), all of it land.