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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.
Union Hill is a former settlement in Nevada County, California, 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from Grass Valley. [2] Its elevation is 2,700 ft (820 m) above sea level. [1] Gold mining is recorded as early as January 30, 1851. A number of mines yielded eighty dollars per ton at times. Sulfurets were said to yield 420 dollars per ton.
The following counties do not have jails: Alpine County: [125] jail services are contracted to El Dorado County and Calaveras County.; Sierra County: [126] this county does not have an official jail tracked by the Board of State and Community Corrections, but the Sheriff's website says that "as of March 17, 2015 the Sierra County Jail began operating as a Temporary Housing Facility".
Cohen had been arrested on allegations of negligent DUI manslaughter with a vehicle, causing "death to human or unborn child," property damage, resisting an officer and possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana, according to sheriff's office records. Jail or Agency: Palm Beach County; State: Florida; Date arrested or booked: 4/2/2015
Nevada County vital statistics, 1850–1869 (and up to 1876 for divorces): births, marriages, separations, divorces, naturalizations, and deaths in Nevada County, California, as compiled from county records, cemeteries, newspapers, letters, diaries, and family records, plus a list of clergymen who served in Nevada County during those same years ...
View history; General ... Pages in category "Grass Valley, California" ... (Nevada County, California) Grass Valley Pioneer Jewish Cemetery;
Gold Hill in Grass Valley, California, was the site of one of the first discoveries of quartz gold [2] in California. While quartz gold was also found in other areas of Nevada County, California during the same time, it is this find near Wolf Creek that led to quartz-mining frenzy and subsequent creation of the Gold Country quartz-mining industry.
Town Talk was a historic mining community in Nevada County, California. [1] Town Talk was located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northeast of Grass Valley. [2] It was the site of the Town Talk Mine and a rail tunnel on the line between Grass Valley and Nevada City. [3]