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.

Young's party continued on into California trapping and trading from Sacramento to Los Angeles, returning to Taos in April, 1830 after trapping along the Colorado River.

* Sacramento River ( Mexico )

* Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta ( California )

* Sacramento River ( California )

Judah was chief engineer for the newly formed Sacramento Valley Railroad in 1852, the first railroad built west of the Mississippi River.

The slope elevation decreases northward toward the American River and westward toward the Sacramento River.

All surface drainage flows toward the Sacramento River.

Groundwater in the vicinity flows south-southwest toward the Sacramento Delta ; however, after peak rainfall, because of a swollen Sacramento River, the groundwater flow can actually reverse and flow away from the river.

Therefore in 1863, the tribes from the area surrounding the middle Sacramento and Feather rivers, the Konkow group, were removed and marched forcibly to the Round Valley Indian Reservation near the Eel River.

It was not long after the city had reached a relatively large population of about 10, 000, then the Great Flood of 1862 swept away much of it ( and almost everything else along the Sacramento River ) and put the rest under water.

Repeated floods and increased demand for Sacramento River water saw a plethora of massive changes to the environment beginning in the 20th century.

Alexander of the Army Corps of Engineers had written in his surveys of the Central Valley's hydrology and irrigation systems of a great network of pumps and canals that would take water from the water-rich Sacramento River basin into drought-prone South and Central California, especially the San Joaquin Valley.

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.

As the construction of dams, power plants and canals required immense labor, which was rare in the middle of the Depression, the government authorized Sacramento River dams and other structures as public works projects beginning in 1935.

A third major canal, the Sacramento River Deep Water Ship Channel, exists not for irrigation purposes but rather to facilitate navigation of large oceangoing ships from the Delta to the city of Sacramento.

The Aqueduct's waters, which functionally extend the Sacramento River southwards, then run on to serve the enormous populace of California's south, supplying the needs of some 22 million people.

A successful one was the Trinity River diversion, which sent over 90 percent of the flow of that river into the Sacramento through a tunnel under the Klamath Mountains.

Others failed to take root – one of the most notorious, the Klamath Diversion, proposed to send the entire flow of the Klamath River into the Sacramento Valley through a complex system of reservoirs, canals, flumes and tunnels.

Similarly, the Dos Rios Dam project would have diverted almost the entire flow of the Eel River to the Sacramento.

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.

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

Sketch of the Sacramento Valley Railroad ( 1852-1877 ) | Sacramento Valley RR as provided by its engineer, Theodore Judah.

* April 3 – The Pony Express begins its first run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California.

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

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

An early project was undertaken to raise the entire city of Sacramento about above its original elevation.

River control has prevented the Sacramento from its natural flooding, braiding and course-changing patterns, which are important for the maintenance of existing wetlands and the creation of new ones.

Second only to the Columbia River on the west coast of the United States in Chinook salmon runs, the Sacramento and its tributaries once supported a huge population of this fish.

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.

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.

The northern part of the Central Valley is called the Sacramento Valley, after its main river, and the southern part is called the San Joaquin Valley (), after its main river.

The county is governed by a board of five district supervisors as well as the governments of its four incorporated cities: Davis, West Sacramento, Winters, and Woodland.

* alt = California State Route 84 ( northern segment ) begins at the southern West Sacramento city limits and continues south to Rio Vista along Jefferson Blvd, ending its northern segment at State Route 12 in Rio Vista.

* Fairfield-Suisun Transit Line 30 also stops in Davis on its runs between Fairfield ( Solano County ) and Sacramento.

John Augustus Sutter, a German native born to Swiss parents, was one of the first to recognize the Sacramento Valley for its potential as an agricultural empire, and his Hock Farm, established in 1841 on the Feather River just south of present-day Yuba City, was the site of the valley ’ s first large agricultural enterprise.

Its northern half is referred to as the Sacramento Valley, and its southern half as the San Joaquin Valley.

According to S & P, Rancho Cordova ’ s rating reflects the City ’ s “ very strong wealth indicator, its good financial performance leading to a very strong fund balance, good financial management practices and policies, and its access to Eastern Sacramento metropolitan area .” “ In our opinion, Rancho Cordova ’ s financial performance has been good with the City historically reporting consecutive surpluses ,” said S & P ’ s analysis report.

Due to the demands for rich agricultural land, its size stayed compact but has the distinction of being the only river town along the Sacramento River to occupy both the east and west riverbanks.

He built a shack on the west bank of the Sacramento River six miles ( 10 km ) south of its connection with the American River.