In the Sacramento valley in California, for instance, it has been observed that there was not one day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins.

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.

The two halves meet at the huge Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, which along with their tributaries drain the majority of the valley.

The valley is a vast agricultural region drained by the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers.

The one notable exception to the flat valley floor is Sutter Buttes, the remnants of an extinct volcano just to the northwest of Yuba City which is north of Sacramento.

The term Coast Range is used by the United States Geological Survey to refer only to the ranges south from the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington to the California-Mexico border ; and only the ranges west of Puget Sound, the Willamette valley, the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys or ' California Central Valley ' ( thereby excluding the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges ), and the Mojave ( High ) and Sonoran ( Low ) Deserts.

As a result, thirty-three settlers in Sonoma, assisted by volunteers from among the American settlers and Vacqueros from the many haciendas, in the Sacramento River valley, captured the Mexican garrison of Sonoma and raised a homemade flag with a bear and star ( the " Bear Flag ") to symbolize their taking control.

Vallejo was sent to Sutter's Fort in the Sacramento River valley, where he was kept a prisoner until August 1, 1846.

It is located in northern California, in the valley of the Sacramento River.

Before the arrival of European settlers in the 19th century, much of the Sacramento valley was taken up by seasonal wetlands and grasslands.

Despite the rich soils and favorable weather of the Central Valley, inhabitants of the valley who were unfamiliar with its natural rainfall patterns and started to practice intense irrigated agriculture on the arid land soon found themselves troubled by frequent floods in the Sacramento Valley and a general lack of water in the San Joaquin Valley.

Unlike the Sacramento Valley, the river system for which the San Joaquin Valley is named does not extend very far along the valley.

There are also plans for a high-speed rail line that will link the valley with San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Diego.

Interstate 80 cuts a northeast-to-southwest swath through the southern end of the valley, mostly through Sacramento and Yolo Counties, and ends at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Other principal routes in the region include State Route 99, which runs along the valley's eastern edge, roughly parallel to I-5, from Sacramento until its northern terminus in Red Bluff ; State Route 20, which traverses the valley from west to east on its route from State Route 1 in Mendocino County to the Donner Pass ; State Route 49, named in honor of the California Gold Rush and running through many old mining towns in the foothills of the valley ; and State Route 45, which runs along the course of the Sacramento River roughly ten miles ( 20 km ) east of I-5.

The Union Pacific Railroad serves the valley, with its principal north-south line from Oakland, California to Portland, Oregon, via Sacramento, Marysville, Chico, and Redding.

The state's largest river by discharge, the Sacramento River, flows through the northern third of the valley, known as the Sacramento Valley.

Debris, silt, and millions of gallons of water used daily by the mine caused extensive flooding, prompting Sacramento valley farmers to file the lawsuit Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company.

Owing to the distance and difficulty in traveling from the valley of Ribeira da Cruz, in 1757, the parish vicar ( Father Agostinho Pereira de Lacerda ) requested that the bishop of Angra ( at that time Brother Valério do Sacramento ) anex Caveira to the neighboring parish of São Caetano da Lomba ( even though it was part of the neighboring municipality ).

Sacramento County officials continue to lobby for the construction of a flood-control dry dam above Rancho Murieta, which would open much of the lower Cosumnes River valley to development.

The climate of Cloudcroft and the Sacramento Mountains is cooler and receives more precipitation and snowfall than the surrounding areas in West Texas and southern New Mexico.

The Sacramento River, which drains the northern part, receives between 60-75 % of the precipitation in the Valley, despite the Sacramento Valley covering less area than the much larger San Joaquin Valley, drained by the San Joaquin River, which receives only about 25 % of the rainfall.

It receives the waters of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, via Suisun Bay and the Carquinez Strait on its northeast end, and it connects to the Pacific Ocean via the San Francisco Bay on its southern end.

The floodplain that makes up the Yolo Bypass receives water from the Sacramento River and provides an Important Bird Area of the Pacific Flyway for an impressive variety of waterfowl.

The player is Brooklyn newspaperman Jerrod Wilson, who soon receives word that he must go to Sacramento to meet his long-lost brother.

Collis Huntington, a hardware merchant, heard Judah's presentation about the railroad at the St. Charles Hotel in Sacramento in November 1860.

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.

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

The riparian areas along the Sacramento once totaled more than ; today only about remains.

The duo, generally believed to be mother and calf ( Delta, the mother and Dawn, her calf ), continued to swim upstream to the deep water ship channel near West Sacramento, about inland.

In 1860 – 1861 the Pony Express, employing riders traveling on horseback day and night with relay stations about every ten miles to supply fresh horses, was established from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California.

Winters is nearly from Sacramento and about from San Francisco, California.

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

* Recording of Mike Farrell talking about his book and activities from Sacramento, CA on September 28, 2008

The Calhoun and Livermore elementaries have about 300 students each, while Sacramento Elementary has 125 students.

It is located about 40 miles from Sacramento in the historic Gold Country foothills and sits directly on Highway 50.

It is about 3 – 4 hours away from L. A., San Francisco, and Sacramento.

The Sacramento International Airport is located approximately from the city, while rail transportation ( Amtrak ) is accessible in Roseville ( about from the city ).

In 1972, after negotiations between the Fire District, Sacramento County, Raley's, and the Sons and Daughters of the Golden West, the building was moved to back north of the Boulevard about 200 feet.

It is located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, about east 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.

To the west of the town is the Carrizozo Malpais, a 40 mile long lava flow that is about 1, 500 years old and accessible through the Valley of Fires Recreation Area To the northeast is the Carrizo mountain, a 9, 000-foot peak, and to the southeast are the Sacramento Mountains.

There have been discussions about moving the Oakland A's to San Jose ( which seem to be hampered by the San Francisco Giants territorial rights to the south Bay Area ) although offers to move to the A's to Sacramento, CA ( where the A's minor league club-the River Cats-are based ) have been rejected by the A's ownership.

It is still not sure whether this story is true or not, because Fay ( Frank Gilmore's mother ) who was from Sacramento, told Bessie about Frank's father, whom she had a short relationship with, mentioned he was a famous magician who had stopped into town, and so Bessie went to the library to research it and came up to the conclusion that Harry Houdini had been Frank's father.

The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento a few days after Lick's arrival in the future state began the California Gold Rush and created a housing boom in San Francisco, which grew from about one thousand residents in 1848 to over twenty thousand by 1850.

It is located in Chico, California, about ninety miles north of Sacramento.

Cities or regions with significant Laotian-American populations include the San Francisco Bay area ( numbering at about 11, 545 ); the Sacramento Metropolitan Area ( 9, 814 ); the Seattle metropolitan area ( 12, 190 ); Minneapolis – Saint Paul ( 18, 031 ); the Dallas – Fort Worth metropolitan area ( 10, 500 ); San Diego ( 7, 002 ); Fresno, California ( 6, 381 ); Providence, Rhode Island ( 6, 291 ); Elgin, Illinois ( 4, 000 ); and the Greater Los Angeles Area ( est.

From there, it travels north about ten miles through rural areas near the western edge of the Sacramento Valley before reaching Winters.