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Nevada City

Nevada City is a city in and the county seat of , United States, 60 miles northeast of , 84 miles southwest of and 147 miles northeast of . The population was 3,152 as of the 2020 census.
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  • Type: Village with 2,860 residents
  • Description: town and county seat of Nevada County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Beer Creek Diggings”, “Caldwell’s Upper Store”, “Deer Creek Dry Diggins”, “Nevada City, CA”, and “Nevada City, California”
  • Postal code: 95959

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nevada Theatre and Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum.

Theater building
Photo: Almonroth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , also known as the Cedar Theatre, located in downtown Nevada City, California, is California's oldest existing theater building. Its principal periods of significance were 1850–1874, 1875–1899, 1900–1924, and 1925–1949.

Museum
The is a transport museum and heritage railroad located in Nevada City, California.

Hotel
Photo: Tadd and Debbie Ottman, CC BY 2.0.
, formerly Bicknell Block, also known as National Hotel, is a historic hotel located in Nevada City, California. It is the most imposing building in downtown Nevada City and one of the oldest continuously operating hotels west of the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grass Valley and Gold Flat.

Photo: Jane Pojawa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in , United States. As of the 2020 United States census, its population was 14,016. Situated at roughly 2,500 feet in elevation in the western foothills of the mountain range, this northern city is 57 miles by car from and 88 miles west of .

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , . It lies at an elevation of 2651 feet. is located 2.5 miles northeast of .

Hamlet
was a historic mining community in , . was located 2.5 miles northeast of . It was the site of the Mine and a rail tunnel on the line between Grass Valley and Nevada City.

Nevada City

Latitude
39.2626° or 39° 15′ 45″ north
Longitude
-121.0187° or 121° 1′ 7″ west
Population
2,860
Elevation
2,477 feet (755 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US NFC
Open location code
84FW7X7J+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 141033320
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5376502
Wiki­data ID
Q667268
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Nevada City” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نيفادا سيتي”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nevada-Siti”
  • Basque: “Nevada City”
  • Belarusian: “Невада-Сіці (Каліфорнія)”
  • Belarusian: “Невада-Сіці”
  • Bulgarian: “Невада Сити”
  • Catalan: “Nevada City”
  • Cebuano: “Nevada City”
  • Chechen: “Невада-Сити”
  • Chinese: “Nevada City”
  • Chinese: “內華達城”
  • Chinese: “内华达城”
  • Croatian: “Nevada City”
  • Czech: “Nevada City”
  • Danish: “Nevada City”
  • Dutch: “Nevada City”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيفادا سيتى”
  • Esperanto: “Nevadurbo”
  • Esperanto: “Urbo Nevada”
  • French: “Nevada City”
  • German: “Deer Creek Dry Diggins, Nevada, Caldwell’s Upper Store”
  • German: “Nevada City”
  • Gilaki: “نوادا سيتي”
  • Greek: “Νεβάντα Σίτι”
  • Haitian: “Nevada City, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Nevada City”
  • Hebrew: “נבדה סיטי”
  • Hungarian: “Nevada City”
  • Irish: “Nevada City”
  • Italian: “Nevada City”
  • Japanese: “ネバダシティ”
  • Korean: “네바다시티”
  • Ladin: “Nevada City”
  • Malagasy: “Nevada City, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Nevada City”
  • Malayalam: “നെവാഡ സിറ്റി”
  • Mazanderani: “نوادا سیتی (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “نوادا سیتی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nevada City”
  • Newari: “नेभादा सिटी, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “नेभादा सिटी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nevada City”
  • Norwegian: “Nevada City”
  • Pampanga: “Nevada Lakanbalen, California”
  • Pampanga: “Nevada Lakanbalen”
  • Persian: “نوادا سیتی، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “نوادا سیتی”
  • Polish: “Nevada City”
  • Portuguese: “Nevada City”
  • Russian: “Невада-Сити”
  • Scots: “Nevada City, Californie”
  • Scots: “Nevada City”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nevada City”
  • Serbian: “Невада Сити”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nevada City, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nevada City”
  • Slovak: “Nevada City”
  • Slovenian: “Nevada City”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نوادا سیتی، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Nevada City (California)”
  • Spanish: “Nevada City”
  • Swedish: “Nevada City”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Nevada, California”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Nevada”
  • Tagalog: “Nevada City, California”
  • Tagalog: “Nevada”
  • Talysh: “Nevada Siti”
  • Tatar: “Невада-Сити”
  • Turkish: “Nevada City, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Nevada City”
  • Ukrainian: “Невада-Сіті”
  • Urdu: “نیواڈا سٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Nevada City”
  • Vietnamese: “Nevada City, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Nevada City”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Nevada, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Nevada”
  • Volapük: “Nevada City”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nevada City, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nevada City”

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