{"id":778,"date":"2023-01-20T09:02:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T09:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=778"},"modified":"2026-08-22T17:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:16:18","slug":"sutter-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/sutter-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Sutter County, California"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sutter County is a county in California, United States, in the Sacramento Valley where the Feather and Sacramento rivers meet. It had a population of 99,633 at the 2020 census and covers 608 square miles (1,570 km2) of mostly flat farmland, centred near 39°02′N 121°41′W.<\/p>\n

Yuba City is the county seat, and its postal code is 95991. The county has one incorporated city, Live Oak, plus Yuba City itself, seven census-designated places, and dozens of smaller unincorporated farm communities. Sutter County has no civil townships. It sits in the Pacific time zone, and its FIPS code is 06101.<\/p>\n

Towns & Villages in Sutter County<\/h2>\n

Sutter County has two incorporated cities — Yuba City (the seat) and Live Oak — alongside seven census-designated places and roughly thirty small unincorporated localities, many of them former rail sidings and farm depots dating to the county’s agricultural settlement. CDPs and unincorporated communities are marked below; places with no recorded 2020 population or dedicated ZIP code are shown with —.<\/p>\n

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Place<\/th>\nType<\/th>\nPop.<\/th>\nZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Yuba City<\/td>\nCity · seat<\/td>\n70,117<\/td>\n95991 \/ 95993<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Live Oak<\/td>\nCity<\/td>\n9,106<\/td>\n95953<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sutter<\/td>\nCDP<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n95982<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Meridian<\/td>\nCDP<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n95957<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nicolaus<\/td>\nCDP<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n95659<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
East Nicolaus<\/td>\nCDP<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n95659 (shared)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rio Oso<\/td>\nCDP<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n95674<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robbins<\/td>\nCDP<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n95676<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Trowbridge<\/td>\nCDP<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pleasant Grove<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n95668<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
South Yuba City<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n95991 (shared)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tierra Buena<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n95991 (shared)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tudor<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Encinal<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Abbott<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bogue<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Catlett<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kirkville<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Karnak<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunset<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sankey<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wilson<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

A cluster of smaller nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century farm-rail landmarks also appears in older gazetteers for the county, including Alemandra, Berg, Colusa Junction, Counsman, Cranmore, Cunard, Dean Place, Ensley, Everglade, Hinsdale, Joes Landing, Josephine, Lira, Lomo, Marchant, Nuestro, Oswald, Poffenbergers Landing, Progress, Sanders, Subaco, Sullivan, Tarke and Verona — mostly former Southern Pacific sidings and packing-shed sites in the rice- and orchard-growing bottomlands, most no longer marked on current maps.<\/p>\n

ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n