One anecdote describes Thomas Hunt Morgan banning the Friden calculator from his department at Caltech, saying " Well, I am like a guy who is prospecting for gold along the banks of the Sacramento River in 1849.

Caltrans is headquartered in Sacramento.

Like most state agencies, Caltrans maintains its headquarters in Sacramento, which is covered by District 3.

San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean.

The Delta Smelt, Hypomesus transpacificus is found in the Sacramento Delta of California, and is an endangered species.

* California, whose supreme court is headquartered in San Francisco and maintains only branch offices in the state capital, Sacramento, and the state's largest city, Los Angeles.

** Ground is broken in Sacramento, California, on the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States.

** In Sacramento, California, Lynette Fromme, a follower of jailed cult leader Charles Manson, attempts to assassinate U. S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.

* January 28 – Richard Chase, the " Vampire of Sacramento ", is arrested.

( A second " Lost " Golden Spike is also on display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.

* Grissom Avenue at the former Mather Air Force Base, now known as Sacramento Mather Airport, Rancho Cordova, California, is one of a number of streets at the former base named after Mercury, Gemini and Apollo program astronauts.

Sutter's Fort State Historic Park is a state-protected park in Sacramento, California which includes Sutter's Fort and the California State Indian Museum.

The fort is famous for its association with the Donner Party, the California Gold Rush and the formation of Sacramento.

The compound was built near the junction of the American and Sacramento Rivers and is located at what is now the intersection of 27th and L Streets in the Midtown neighborhood of the city of Sacramento, California.

The Sacramento River is often said to receive " two-thirds to three-quarters of northern California's precipitation though it has only one-third to one-quarter of the land.

It is surmised that between four and five million years ago, the Sacramento and Snake-Columbia River systems were somehow connected by a series of now-dry wetlands and river channels.

Red Bluff Diversion Dam, which sends Sacramento River water to a pair of irrigation canals near Red Bluff, California | Red Bluff, is a major barrier to fish movement and migration in the river.

For a river of its size, the Sacramento is considered to have fairly clean water.

On October 20, 2009 the WNBA announced that the Detroit Shock would relocate to Tulsa, Oklahoma ; the team is called the Tulsa Shock On November 20, 2009, the WNBA announced that the Sacramento Monarchs had folded due to lack of support from its current owners, the Maloof family, also the owners of the Sacramento Kings.

Johann August Sutter ( February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880 ) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.

Sacramento was officially established in 1850 and was recognized as the state capital in 1854.

The main population centers of Northern California include San Francisco Bay Area ( which includes the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and the largest city of the region, San Jose ), and Sacramento ( the state capital ) as well as its metropolitan area.

Dixon is a city in northern Solano County, California, United States, located from the state capital, Sacramento.

Soon after the legislature was moved to the courthouse in Sacramento, which has remained the state capital ever since.

After Monterey, the state capital was variously San Jose ( 1850 – 1851 ), Vallejo ( 1852 – 1853 ) and Benicia ( 1853 – 1854 ) until Sacramento was finally selected in 1854.

Butte County is a county located in the Central Valley of the US state of California, north of the state capital of Sacramento.

Colusa County is a county located in the Central Valley of the U. S. state of California, northwest of state capital Sacramento.

Sutter County is a county located along the Sacramento River in the Central Valley of the U. S. state of California, north of state capital Sacramento.

The largest city is Fresno, followed by the state capital Sacramento.

Farther southwest on I-80 are the cities of San Francisco and Oakland ; in the opposite direction, northeast, is the capital of California, Sacramento.

El Dorado Hills ( EDH ) is an unincorporated census-designated place ( CDP ) located in El Dorado County, California, east of the state capital of Sacramento.

The distance to Sacramento, the California state capital, is approximately, and to Los Angeles, the state's largest city is.

Elk Grove is a city in Sacramento County, California, located just south of the state capital of Sacramento.

Beale is located outside of Linda, about east of the towns of Marysville and Yuba City and about north of Sacramento, the state capital.

The San Francisco Bay Area ( which includes the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose ), and Sacramento ( the state capital ) as well as its metropolitan area are the main population centers.

Kevin Maurice Johnson ( born March 4, 1966 ) is the current mayor of Sacramento, the capital city of the U. S. state of California.

Folsom State Prison is a California State Prison located in the city of Folsom, California, northeast from the state capital of Sacramento.

* Colonia Department, a departamento in south-western Uruguay, where Colonia del Sacramento is the capital

Since California was given official statehood by the U. S. in September 9, 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850, the state capital was variously San Jose ( 1850 – 1851 ), Vallejo ( 1852 – 1853 ) and Benicia ( 1853 – 1854 ), until Sacramento was finally selected in 1854.

-- and the seal sculpted into the tympanum of the 1928 Stanley Mosk Library and Courts I building in Sacramento, where the Supreme Court of California sits while in the capital, shows twenty-one stars.

" He attended graduate school at Harvard University for one year and worked at the state legislature in Sacramento.

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and the state of California completed reports as early as the 1870s and 1880s that detailed the geography and water supplies of the Sacramento, Feather, Yuba and Bear rivers.

The vast majority of state government agencies and departments are headquartered in Sacramento or in parts of Sacramento County near the city of Sacramento ; in turn, the larger agencies and departments also have local offices around the state which report to headquarters in Sacramento.

Yolo County is a county located in the northern part of the U. S. state of California, bordered by the other counties of Sacramento, Solano, Napa, Lake, Colusa, and Sutter.

In Yolo County, most of highway 84 is unsigned, but there are call boxes that indicate the highway number along state route 84 south of West Sacramento to the Solano County line.

Solano County is a county located in the U. S. state of California, about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento.