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Yuba City, California. / 39.13472°N 121.62611°W / 39.13472; -121.62611. Yuba City ( Maidu: Yubu) [7] [8] is a city in Northern California and the county seat of Sutter County, California, United States. The population was 70,117 at the 2020 census. Yuba City is the principal city of the Yuba City Metropolitan Statistical Area which ...
History. Yuba County was one of California's original counties, formed in 1850 at the time of statehood. Parts of the county's territory were given to Placer County in 1851, to Nevada County in 1851, and to Sierra County in 1852. The county was named after the Yuba River by Captain John Sutter for the Maidu village Yubu, Yupu, or Juba near the ...
The Yuba River is a tributary of the Feather River in the Sierra Nevada and eastern Sacramento Valley, in the U.S. state of California. The main stem of the river is about 40 miles (64 km) long, [2] and its headwaters are split into three major forks. The Yuba River proper is formed at the North Yuba and Middle Yuba rivers' confluence, with the ...
The Yuba Goldfields, also known as the Hammonton dredge field, is the largest gold dredge field in California. Located along the Yuba River approximately 6–12 miles (10–20 km) upstream of the town of Marysville , in Yuba County , the Hammonton dredge field was actively dredged for gold from 1904 [1] to 1968. [2]
The Yuba–Sutter area (common name), or Yuba City Metropolitan Statistical Area (name given by the U.S. Census Bureau ), is a smaller metropolitan community including Yuba and Sutter Counties in Northern California 's Central Valley within the Greater Sacramento area. The area is anchored by Yuba City, California, the county seat of Sutter ...
The Yuba City bus disaster was the second-worst bus disaster in U.S. history, exceeded only by the 1963 train-bus collision in Chualar, California, which claimed the lives of 32 Mexican farmworkers. In May 1996, on the twentieth anniversary of the accident, a memorial built near the water at the Martinez Marina was dedicated to the victims.
The Sutter County Museum, (formerly the Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County), established in 1975 is the showplace and storehouse for many Yuba-Sutter history treasures and memories. The museum has Nisenan artifacts as well as many from early settlers around the time of the California Gold Rush. The Museum is run as a department of local ...
Rancho Johnson. Coordinates: 39.040°N 121.410°W. Rancho Johnson (or Johnson's Ranch) was a 22,197-acre (89.83 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Yuba County, California, given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Pablo Gutiérrez. [1] The grant was located along the north side of Bear River, and encompassed present-day Wheatland.