YUBA & SUTTER COUNTY FILM COMMISSION

Sutter County population, as of the 2020 census, was 99,633. The county seat is Yuba City. Sutter County is included in the Yuba City, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Sacramento-Roseville, CA Combined Statistical Area. The county is located along the Sacramento River in the Sacramento Valley. Situated between two rivers, the Sacramento and the Feather, Sutter County covers an area of 606.8 square miles (388,359 acres). Sutter County is perhaps most renowned for being home to the smallest mountain range in the world, the Sutter Buttes.

Yuba County was one of California's original counties, 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. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the population was 81,575. The county seat is Marysville. Yuba County is included in the Yuba City, California Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Sacramento–Roseville, California Combined Statistical Area. The county is in the Central Valley region along the Feather River. The county was named after the Yuba River by Captain John Sutter for the Maidu village Yubu, Yupu or Juba near the confluence of the Yuba and Feather rivers. General Mariano Vallejo said 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. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 644 square miles. It is California's fifth-smallest county by area.

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