Sutter County
| Sutter County, California | |||||
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| County of Sutter | |||||
Images, from top down, left to right: Sutter Buttes terrain, Live Oak Blvd near Pennington Road in the City of Live Oak, bridges crossing the Feather River
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 United States |
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 California
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| Region | Sacramento Valley | ||||
| Metro area | Sacramento metropolitan area | ||||
| Incorporated | February 18, 1850 | ||||
| County seat | Yuba City | ||||
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| • Total | 1,570 km2 (608 sq mi) | ||||
| • Land | 1,560 km2 (602 sq mi) | ||||
| • Water | 16 km2 (6.1 sq mi) | ||||
| Population (April 1, 2010) | |||||
| • Total | 94,737 | ||||
| • Estimate (2015) | 96,463 | ||||
| • Density | 60/km2 (160/sq mi) | ||||
| Time zone | Pacific Time Zone (UTC-8) | ||||
| • Summer (DST) | Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7) | ||||
| Website | www.co.sutter.ca.us | ||||
Sutter County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 94,737. The county seat is Yuba City.
Sutter County is included in the Yuba City, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Sacramento-Roseville, CA Combined Statistical Area. The county is located along the Sacramento River in the Sacramento Valley.
Sutter County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood. Parts of the county were given to Placer County in 1852.
Sutter County is named after one of the state’s more engaging and complex historical personalities, and an agricultural visionary. John Augustus Sutter, a German native born to Swiss parents, was one of the first to recognize the Sacramento Valley for its potential as an agricultural empire, and his Hock Farm, established in 1841 on the Feather River just south of present-day Yuba City, was the site of the valley’s first large agricultural enterprise.
Sutter obtained the Rancho New Helvetia Mexican land grant, and called his first settlement New Helvetia (which included the present day city of Sacramento). In 1850, Sutter retired to Hock Farm when gold seekers deprived him of most of his holdings at Sacramento.
Sutter County is the birthplace (Yuba City, 1858) of John Joseph Montgomery, who was the first American to successfully pilot a heavier than air craft, 20 years before the Wright Brothers, and who held the first patent for an "aeroplane."
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