Tag: Yuba City
Yuba City is a Northern California city, founded in 1849. It is 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.
As of March 2010, Yuba City has an unemployment rate of 20.8%, the third highest among comparable U.S. cities.
The Maidu people were settled in the region when they were first encountered by Spanish and Mexican scouting expeditions in the early 19th 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…
