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Yuba City, California

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Yuba City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95991. It lies near Willow Island. The Survey maps it on the Yuba City quadrangle. 70,117 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

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Yuba City within Sutter County

Then and now

1888 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Yuba City, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Yuba City, surveyed 1888

Population over time

3 figures

Yuba City grew from 36,758 to 70,117 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
200036,758
201064,925+28,167 (+77%)
202070,117+5,192 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

838 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 838 fires within 5 miles of Yuba City between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,613 acres in total. None started naturally. 64 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined568
Arson/incendiarism64
Debris and open burning61
Equipment and vehicle use60
Misuse of fire by a minor45
Smoking30
Recreation and ceremony10

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitE 22ND ST / SAMPSON ST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sutter County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Yuba City: 5 producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Garcia Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pacific Coast Aggregates IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Simpson Lane PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Speckert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spreckert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yuba River Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sutter County

Storms near this place

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yuba City in 8 storm reports between 2005 and 2016: 3 funnel cloud, 3 hail, 2 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2005Tornado (F0)Yuba City$85,000no account filed
May 2016HailYuba City-There was abundant hail, up to 1 inch in diameter by a member of the public.
May 2016HailYuba City-There was large amounts of hail, as large as 1 inch hail reported by the public.
May 2016HailYuba City-There was hail as large as 1.25 inches reported by the public.
May 2005Funnel CloudYuba City-no account filed
March 2005Tornado (F0)Yuba City-no account filed
May 2005Funnel CloudYuba City-no account filed
April 2005Funnel CloudYuba City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sutter County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Yupu (historical)0.5 miles25
South Yuba City2.0 miles22
Colusa Junction2.4 miles23
Tierra Buena2.7 miles23
Berg2.8 miles23
Bogue3.0 miles24
Pease (historical)3.2 miles23
Alemandra3.8 miles23

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Yuba CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q169948The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660222. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.