Yuba City metropolitan area

Common name: Yuba–Sutter area
Largest city	Yuba City
Other cities	- Marysville  - Live Oak  - Wheatland
Population	Ranked 236th in the U.S.
– Total	165,080
– Density	152.4 /sq. mi.   /km2
Area	1,252.3 sq. mi. km2
Country	USA
State(s)	California
Elevation
– Highest point	4825 feet ( m)
– Lowest point	50 feet ( m)

The Yuba–Sutter area is a smaller metropolitan community including Yuba and Sutter Counties in Northern California's Central Valley within the Greater Sacramento area. The official name given by the U.S. Census Bureau is the Yuba City metropolitan statistical area.

The area is anchored by Yuba City, California, the county seat of Sutter County and, to a lesser extent, Marysville, California, the county seat of Yuba County.

Communities [edit]

Places with more than 50,000 inhabitants [edit]

Sutter County

• Yuba City (Principal city)

Places with 10,000 to 50,000 inhabitantats [edit]

Yuba County

• Marysville (incorporated city)
• Olivehurst (census-designated place)
• Linda (census-designated place)

Places with 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants [edit]

Sutter County

• Live Oak (incorporated city)
• South Yuba City (census-designated place)
• Tierra Buena (census-designated place)
• Sutter (census-designated place)

Yuba County

• Beale Air Force Base (census-designated place)
• Brownsville (census-designated place)
• Challenge-Brownsville (census-designated place)
• Loma Rica (census-designated place)
• Plumas Lake (census-designated place)
• Wheatland (incorporated city)

Places with 500 to 1,000 inhabitants [edit]

Sutter County

• Meridian (census-designated place)
• Rio Oso (census-designated place)

Yuba County

• Dobbins (census-designated place)

Yuba–Sutter Fairgrounds main entrance.

Yuba–Sutter Fair [edit]

Located in the Sacramento Valley, the 13th District Agricultural Association better known as the Yuba–Sutter Fair is long on history and tradition. The first fair was held in Marysville, Yuba County and was actually the California State Fair in August 1858. Agricultural societies were organized and the first state fairs were held on a rotating basis. The first state fair was held in San Francisco in 1854, the second in Sacramento, the third in San Jose, the fourth in Stockton and the fifth in Marysville. Thereafter, the state fair was held annually in Sacramento; however, the district fair continued to be held at the pavilion erected at Cortez Square in Marysville. There were 16 fairs held between the years 1858 and 1879. The district fairs were held until the start of the 20th century and then continuity of fair activities is difficult to trace. Sometime in this era, the idea of holding a county fair replaced the district plan. In the 1920s, noteworthy fairs were held near Browns Valley and the community of Arboga. Originally, the 13th District Agricultural Association comprised Yuba, Sutter, Yolo and Sacramento counties. Decentralization resulted in the exclusion of Sacramento County in 1889 and Yolo County left in 1893.

In the early 1930s, a group of interested citizens established a rodeo arena at the Flying I Ranch in the Arboga District. A half-mile racetrack plus pens and a building for livestock exhibits was constructed. At the same time, other exhibits were displayed in the Yuba county Memorial Auditorium. This was used for the annual fairs and rodeo until 1940. Later it was deemed advisable to obtain a site more centrally located and covenant to the residents of Marysville and Yuba City. Consequently in July 1941 a 10-acre (4.0 ha) tract of land at our current site was purchased for $1,020. Activities were halted abruptly during the war years. Additional adjacent land was purchased and the fair has been held annually since 1945, although the severe flood of 1955 curtailed operations that year.

Today the 13th District Agricultural Fair is one of fifty-four district agricultural associations. Twenty-four county fairs, two citrus fairs and the state fair make up the 81 State Fair system.

Concert venues [edit]

• Sleep Train Amphitheater
• Marysville Pavilion

Beale Air Force Base [edit]

See Beale Air Force Base

Education [edit]

Colleges and universities [edit]

• Yuba Community College District
• Chapman University College
• Cambridge Career College

High schools [edit]

• Yuba City High School
• Marysville High School
• River Valley High School
• Lindhurst High School
• Sutter Union High School
• Live Oak High School
• Wheatland High School
• Faith Christian High School
• Three Rivers High School
• East Nicolaus High School
• Pierce High School
• Marysville Charter Academy for the Arts

Sights, museums, recreation and shopping [edit]

Sutter Buttes

• Sunsweet Growers Incorporated
• Sutter Buttes
• Bryant Field
• Bok Kai Temple - built in 1888 to replace the first temple built in the early 1850s, this temple has been a Chinese community project since 1866
• Sutter Hock Farm
• Marysville High School - Oldest high school in western U.S.
• Ellis Lake
  

  
• Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County
• Mary Aaron Memorial Museum
• Museum of the Forgotten Warriors[1]
• Yuba Feather Historical Museum
• Edward F. Beale Museum
• Yuba Sutter Mall
• Riverfront Park
• Sutter/Yuba Friday Night Live [2]

Media [edit]

Newspaper [edit]

• Appeal-Democrat- The Appeal-Democrat is one of many of the National daily newspapers owned by Freedom Communications. More specifically, it is the daily local newspaper for Sutter and Yuba county as well as neighboring communities. The Appeal-Democrat has been circulating throughout this region since 1926 when the Marysville Appeal (founded in 1860) and the Marysville Evening Democrat (founded in 1884) merged. See Appeal-Democrat
• Territorial Dispatch
• The Nor-Cal Paper is now an on-line news and opinions publication created by RW Gless as an Open Forum of news and opinions which allows people to post their views that other medias will not allow or refuse. The Nor-Cal Paper started in 1997 as a weekly full size newspaper and is now strickly an on-line news & opinions publication. All views are welcome at THENORCALPAPER.COM See THENORCALPAPER.COM

Radio [edit]

FM [edit]

• KMJE 101.5
• KKCY 103.1
• KXJS 88.7
• KRCX 99.9
• KRYC 105.9

AM [edit]

• KMYC 1410
• KOBO 1450
• KUBA 1600

Television [edit]

• Comcast Cable North Valley Television NVTV
• MySYtv.com Sutter Yuba Television Magazine

Hospitals [edit]

• Rideout Memorial Hospital - Marysville, California
• Fremont Memorial Hospital - Yuba City, California

Bok Kai festival [edit]

Annually, Marysville celebrates the Chinese New Year and the Bok Eye god with a festival. The parade has been produced each year for more than 120 years and is the oldest continuing parade in California. People from as far away as Taiwan come to worship at the secluded temple. The crash of gongs, the crack of fireworks, and the pounding of drums signal the beginning of the Bok Kai Parade. Marching bands, fire trucks, antique cars, floats and dance groups walk the streets of historical downtown. Over 15,000 spectators each year come to watch the parade's greatest asset, a 150-foot-long (46 m) dragon.

Other activities include martial art demonstrations, food vendors, and art exhibits.

The festival concludes with the firing of 100 ceremonial bombs with "good luck" rings contained inside the bombs.

Because the festival celebrates New Year according to the Chinese lunar calendar, the date of the parade is different each year.

Another interesting fact is that it has never rained during the parade, and has very seldom rained on the day of the parade.

See also [edit]

• List of Registered Historic Places in California
• Yuba–Sutter Regional Arts Council

Coordinates: 39°08′05″N 121°37′34″W / 39.134792°N 121.626201°W / 39.134792; -121.626201