Yuba City

Yuba City, city, seat (1856) of Sutter county, north-central California, U.S. It lies in the Sacramento Valley, at the junction of the Feather and Yuba rivers, 40 miles (65 km) north of Sacramento. In 1849, during the California Gold Rush, Samuel Brannan, Pierson B. Reading, and Henry Cheever purchased part of John Sutter’s New Helvetia, which lay on the site of a former Indian village. Later that year the city was laid out, and many...