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Yuba City, California

City of Yuba City
City
Yuba City, from the air
Yuba City, from the air
Location in Sutter County and the state of California
Location in Sutter County and the state of California
Yuba City is located in the US
Yuba City
Yuba City
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 39°8′5″N 121°37′34″W / 39.13472°N 121.62611°W / 39.13472; -121.62611Coordinates: 39°8′5″N 121°37′34″W / 39.13472°N 121.62611°W / 39.13472; -121.62611
Country United States
State California
County Sutter
Incorporated January 23, 1908
Government
 • Type Council-Manager
 • Mayor John Dukes
Area
 • Total 14.656 sq mi (37.959 km2)
 • Land 14.578 sq mi (37.758 km2)
 • Water 0.078 sq mi (0.201 km2)  0.53%
Elevation 59 ft (18 m)
Population (April 1, 2010)
 • Total 64,925
 • Estimate (2013) 65,416
 • Density 4,400/sq mi (1,700/km2)
Time zone Pacific (UTC-8)
 • Summer (DST) PDT (UTC-7)
ZIP codes 95991–95993
Area code 530
FIPS code 06-86972
GNIS feature ID 1660222
Website www.yubacity.net

Yuba City is a city in Northern California and the county seat of Sutter County, California, United States. The population was 64,925 at the 2010 census. Yuba City is the principal city of the Yuba City Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Sutter County and Yuba County. The metro area's population is 164,138. It is the 21st largest metropolitan area in California ranked behind Redding and Chico. Its metropolitan statistical area is part of the Greater Sacramento CSA.

The unemployment rate in the Yuba City MSA was 14.9 percent in September 2012, down from a revised 15.8 percent in August 2012, and below the year-ago estimate of 16.4 percent. This compares with an unadjusted unemployment rate of 9.7 percent for California and 7.6 percent for the nation during the same period. The unemployment rate was 14.0 percent in Sutter County, and 16.3 percent in Yuba County.

The Maidu people were settled in the region when they were first encountered by Spanish and Mexican scouting expeditions in the early 18th century. One version of the origin of the name "Yuba" is that during one of these expeditions, wild grapes were seen growing by a river, and so it was named "Uba", a variant spelling of the Spanish word uva (grape).

The Mexican government granted a large expanse of land which included the area in which Yuba City is situated to John Sutter, the same John Sutter upon whose land gold was subsequently discovered in 1848. He sold part of this tract to some enterprising men who wished to establish a town near the confluence of the Yuba River and the Feather River, tributaries of the Sacramento River, with an eye to developing a commercial center catering to the thousands of gold miners headed upstream to the gold fields. At the same time, another town was developing on the eastern bank of the Feather River, the beginnings of what later would become Marysville.


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