Nevada City (originally,
Ustumah, a Nisenan
Maidu village; later,
Nevada,
Deer Creek Dry Diggins, and
Caldwell's Upper Store) is the
county seat of
Nevada County, California, United States, located northeast of
Sacramento and 28 miles north of
Auburn. In 1900, 3,250 people lived in Nevada City; in 1910, 2,689 lived there; at the 2000 census, the population was 3,001, and at the 2010 census it was 3,068.