Fort Dick (Tolowa: Mvn-des-chuu-dvn)[1] is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in rural Del Norte County, California.

Fort Dick is around five miles (eight kilometers) north of Crescent City, California, and around 15 mi (24 km) south of the California–Oregon state line.

[5][3] The heavily forested coast territory surrounding Fort Dick was occupied and used by the Tolowa and Yurok tribes of Native Americans.

[6] Historical records state that a party travelling with Jedediah Smith entered the area of Fort Dick and skirted the eastern edge of Lake Earl between June 14 to 16, 1828.

[7] Since his party was there in 1828, it predates the events that led the settler or farmer who owned the land called "Russell's Prairie" (later Fort Dick) by about twenty-five to thirty years.

"On June 14 the company pushed up the beach until they struck a 'low neck of land running into the sea where there was plenty of clover and grass for our horses' and camped.

[citation needed] Fort Dick has very few autonomous governmental services and is largely under the rule of Del Norte County.

[27] People living in Fort Dick must use education facilities in neighboring Crescent City for anything higher than the elementary school level.