Find Online CollegesFind Campus Colleges
Choose a County
Alameda,
Alpine, Amador,
Butte, Calaveras,
Colusa, Contra Costa,
Del Norte, El Dorado,
Fresno, Glenn,
Humboldt, Imperial,
Inyo, Kern,
Kings, Lake,
Lassen, Los Angeles,
Madera, Marin,
Mariposa, Mendocino,
Merced, Modoc,
Mono, Monterey,
Napa, Nevada,
Orange, Placer,
Plumas, Riverside,
Sacramento, San Benito,
San Bernardino, San Diego,
San Francisco, San Joaquin,
San Luis Obispo, San Mateo,
Santa Barbara, Santa Clara,
Santa Cruz, Shasta,
Sierra, Siskiyou,
Solano, Sonoma,
Stanislaus, Sutter,
Tehama, Trinity,
Tulare, Tuolumne,
Ventura, Yolo,
Yuba
California Counties
 Click Image to Enlarge California CountiesThe U.S. state of California is divided into fifty-eight counties. On January 4, 1850, the California constitutional committee recommended the formation of 18 counties. They were Benicia, Butte, Fremont, Los Angeles, Mariposa, Monterey, Mount Diablo, Oro, Redding, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Sonoma, and Sutter. On April 22, the Counties of Branciforte, Calaveras, Coloma, Colusi, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Trinity, and Yuba were added. Benicia was renamed Solano, Coloma to El Dorado, Fremont to Yola, Mt. Diablo to Contra Costa, San Jose to Santa Clara, Oro to Tuolumne, and Redding to Shasta. One of the first state legislative acts regarding Counties was to rename Branciforte County to Santa Cruz, Colusi to Colusa, and Yola to Yolo.The last California county to have been established is Imperial County in 1907. |
Yuba County, CaliforniaYuba County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameIt was named after the Yuba River by Captain John A. Sutter for the Indian village Yubu, Yupu or Juba near the confluence of the Yuba and Feather rivers. Vallejo stated that the river was named Uba by an exploring expedition in 1824 because of the quantities of wild grapes (uvas silvestres in Spanish) which they found growing on its banks Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryYuba County is located in the U.S. state of California's Central Valley, north of Sacramento, along
the Feather River. The county seat is Marysville. Yuba County was one of the original counties of
California, 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 first Legislature met in San Jose on the fifteenth of December, 1849, and February 8, 1850, passed an act segregating the Territory into twenty-seven counties, among which were Yuba and Sutter. General Vallejo, as Chairman of a Committee on Derivation and Meaning of the Names of the Counties, made a lengthy and elaborate report, in which he stated that Yuba was a misspelling <sic> of Uva , a name given to the stream by an exploring party in 1824, on account of the large quantities of wild grape vines found growing on the banks. General Bidwell disagrees with General Vallejo in regard to the derivation of the word Yuba. It is more probable that the name was of Indian origin, and that the similarity between it and the Spanish word was mere coincidence. Sutter county, of course, was named after Captain Sutter, who at that time owned a flourishing ranch and stock farm within its limits. The name of the Feather river may have been of French origin, Rivere de la Plume, which, translated into Spanish becomes Rio de los Plumas. More at HISTORY OF YUBA
COUNTY CALIFORNIA by Thompson & West, 1879 A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California - Chicago, Lewis Publ. Co., 1891, pages 282-287 GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 644 square miles (1,667 kmē),
of which, 631 square miles (1,633 kmē) of it is land and 13 square miles (34 kmē) of it (2.03%) is
water. The county lies along the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, the steep slopes making it prime
territory for the placements of hydroelectric power plants. Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
County Resources:Enter County Resources and Information Here |
County Resources
The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define
the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local.
And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions,
reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history. Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally." |
