POPULATION: 95,065

INCORPORATION DATE: 1850

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

• District 1 – Ron Sullenger
• District 2 – Stanley M. Cleveland
• District 3 – Larry E. Munger
• District 4 – Jim Whiteaker
• District 5 – James Gallagher

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: General Law

SUTTER. County seat, Yuba City. Created February 18, 1850. Sutter County was named after General John Augustus Sutter, a native of Switzerland, who obtained a large land grant from the Mexican government, and called his first settlement New Helvetia (now the City of Sacramento). In 1841, the general established a great stock ranch in this area to which he retired in 1850 when gold seekers deprived him of most of his holdings at Sacramento.