Nevada County
Nevada County is in California. From the Gold Country in the west, this county extends east across the Sierra Nevada mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Nevada City and Grass Valley.
Nevada City
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Nevada City is a city in and the county seat of Nevada County, California, United States, 60 miles northeast of Sacramento, 84 miles southwest of Reno and 147 miles northeast of San Francisco. The population was 3,152 as of the 2020 census.
Grass Valley
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Grass Valley is a city in Nevada County, California, 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 Sierra Nevada mountain range, this northern Gold Country city is 57 miles by car from Sacramento and 88 miles west of Reno.
Nevada County
- Type: County with 98,800 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “Nevada”, “Nevada County, CA”, and “Nevada County, California”
- Neighbors: Placer County, Sierra County, and Yuba County
- Categories: county of California and locality
- Location: Gold Country, California, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
39.354° or 39° 21′ 15″ northLongitude of center
-120.809° or 120° 48′ 32″ westPopulation
98,800Elevation
4,636 feet (1,413 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 316944784OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Nevada County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Nevada County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة نيفادا”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه نيفادا، كاليفورنيا”
- Armenian: “Նևադա շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Nevada”
- Asturian: “Nevada (condáu)”
- Azerbaijani: “Nevada qraflığı”
- Basque: “Nevada konderria”
- Bavarian: “Nevada County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “Nevada County”
- Belarusian: “Невада”
- Bishnupriya: “নেভাডা কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “নেভাডা কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Невада”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Nevada”
- Cebuano: “Nevada County”
- Chechen: “Невада”
- Chinese: “Nevada Kūn”
- Chinese: “內華達縣”
- Chinese: “內華達郡”
- Chinese: “内华达县”
- Czech: “Nevada County”
- Danish: “Nevada County”
- Dutch: “Nevada County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Nevada”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Nevada”
- Esperanto: “kantono Nevado”
- Estonian: “Nevada maakond”
- Finnish: “Nevadan piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Nevada”
- French: “Comté de Nevada”
- Gan Chinese: “內華達縣”
- Georgian: “ნევადის ოლქი”
- German: “Nevada County”
- Gilaki: “نوادا شأرستان”
- Hebrew: “מחוז נבאדה”
- Hungarian: “Nevada megye”
- Icelandic: “Nevada County”
- Icelandic: “Nevada-sýsla”
- Irish: “Contae Nevada, California”
- Irish: “Contae Nevada”
- Italian: “contea di Nevada”
- Italian: “Contea di Nevada”
- Italian: “Nevada County”
- Japanese: “ネバダ郡”
- Korean: “네바다군”
- Latin: “Nevada Comitatus”
- Limburgan: “Nevada County”
- Low German: “Nevada County”
- Malayalam: “നെവാഡ കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “नेव्हाडा काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “نوادا شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “نوادا شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nevada Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Nevada County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nevada County i California”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nevada County”
- Norwegian: “Nevada County”
- Pampanga: “Nevada County, California”
- Pampanga: “Nevada County”
- Persian: “شهرستان نوادا، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان نوادا”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Nevada”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Nevada”
- Russian: “Невада”
- Sardinian: “contea de Nevada”
- Serbian: “Округ Невада”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nevada County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nevada County”
- Slovenian: “Nevada County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Nevada”
- Spanish: “Condado de Nevada, California”
- Spanish: “Condado de Nevada”
- Swedish: “Nevada County, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Nevada County”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng Nevada, California”
- Tagalog: “Nevada County”
- Tatar: “Невада (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Невада”
- Tumbuka: “Nevada County, California”
- Tumbuka: “Nevada County”
- Turkish: “Nevada County, CA”
- Turkish: “Nevada County, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Nevada County, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Nevada County”
- Turkish: “Nevada ilçesi, CA”
- Turkish: “Nevada ilçesi, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Nevada ilçesi, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Nevada ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Невада”
- Urdu: “نیواڈا کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de Nevada”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Nevada, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Nevada”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Nevada, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Nevada”
- Welsh: “Nevada County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “Nevada County”
- Western Panjabi: “نیواڈا کاؤنٹی”
- Yue Chinese: “內華達縣”
- “Nevada”
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