Marysville (California)
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| Nickname : Gateway to the Goldfields | |||
Location in California
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | February 5, 1843 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | California | ||
| County : | Yuba County | ||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 9 ′ N , 121 ° 35 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 ) | ||
| Residents : | 12,268 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 1,348.1 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 9.4 km 2 (approx. 4 mi 2 ) of which 9.1 km 2 (approx. 4 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 19 m | ||
| Postal code : | 95901 | ||
| Area code : | +1 530 | ||
| FIPS : | 06-46170 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0277554 | ||
| Website : | www.marysville.ca.us | ||
| Mayor : | Bill Harris | ||
Marysville is a city in the US state of California in Yuba County , of which it is also the administrative seat . It has about 12,500 inhabitants (as of 2004) on an area of 9.4 km². The city is located at the confluence of the Yuba River with the Feather River . On the opposite west bank of the Feather River lies the much larger sister city of Yuba City .
It was founded in 1843 as New Mecklenburg by Theodor Cordua . It later became Marysville after Mary Murphy Covillaud , a survivor of the Donner Party , a settler group that only survived through cannibalism in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846/47 . In the California gold rush , Maryville was an important place on the way to the northern gold fields.
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