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Grass Valley is a city in Nevada County, California, United States.As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 12,860.Situated at roughly 2,500 feet (760 m) in elevation in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, this northern Gold Country city is 57 miles (92 km) by car from Sacramento and 88 miles (142 km) west of Reno.
Grass Valley Wilderness is a wilderness area in San Bernardino County, California, near Ridgecrest. It mainly consists of low-lying hills and flat desert covered by vegetation typical of the Mohave Desert, like creosote bush, desert scrub, and isolated stands of Joshua trees. Fauna consists of the desert tortoise and the Mohave ground squirrel.
Grass Valley is a neighborhood in Oakland, California. Located in East Oakland in the hills east of Bishop O'Dowd High School and the Oakland Zoo. It straddles upper Golf Links Road and lies just west of Skyline Boulevard's end. It is adjacent to the Lake Chabot Golf Course. It is home to Grass Valley Elementary School, which was opened in 1953. [1
State Route 174 (SR 174) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California.The two-lane 13-mile (21 km) highway in the western Sierra Nevada, added to the state highway system in 1933, connects Interstate 80 in Colfax with SR 20/SR 49 in Grass Valley, crossing the Bear River next to a 1924 concrete arch bridge.
The current alignment, built in the mid-1980s as a mostly two-lane freeway, continues east across rugged terrain to the city of Grass Valley, where it joins SR 49 on the Golden Center Freeway. The two routes travel northeast to Nevada City , where SR 49 turns northwest and SR 20 resumes its eastward course as a two-lane highway.
Pages in category "Grass Valley, California" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Grass Valley geologic map showing the underlying granodiorite Grass Valley geologic cross section showing the Empire vein. A Granodiorite body five miles (8 km) long, north to south, and up to two miles (3.2 km) wide, underlies the district. This body intruded into surrounding metamorphic rocks.
A referendum on annexation by Grass Valley was held in 1934, and was rejected. [3] Hills Valley residents ultimately voted to join Grass Valley in 1967. [4] Today, Hills Flat is considered a "business district" of Grass Valley, [5] best known for its large lumber yard.