Editing Yuba City, California (section)

==History==

===Early history===
The [[Maidu]] people were settled in the region when they were first encountered by Spanish and Mexican scouting expeditions in the early 18th century. One version of the origin of the name "Yuba" is that during one of these expeditions, wild grapes were seen growing by a river, and so it was named "Uba", a variant spelling of the Spanish word ''uva'' (grape). On the map of the area made by [[Jean Jacques Vioget]] in 1841, a Maidu rancheria called Buba, noted in [[Stephen Powers]]' 1877 book ''The Tribes of California'' as the village of Yú-ba, was located at the present site of Yuba City.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Heizer |first=Robert F. |date=1970 |title=Papers on California Ethnography |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0tj64363 |language=en}}</ref>

The Mexican government granted a large expanse of land, which included the area in which Yuba City is situated, to [[John Sutter]]—the same John Sutter upon whose land gold was subsequently discovered in 1848. He sold part of this tract to some enterprising men who wished to establish a town near the confluence of the [[Yuba River]] and the [[Feather River]], tributaries of the [[Sacramento River]], with an eye to developing a commercial center catering to the thousands of gold miners headed upstream to the gold fields. At the same time, another town was developing on the eastern bank of the Feather River, the beginnings of what later would become [[Marysville, California|Marysville]].

By 1852, Yuba City was a steamboat landing, had one hotel, a grocery store, a post office, and approximately 20 dwelling homes with a population of about 150.

Yuba City was chosen as [[county seat]] for [[Sutter County, California|Sutter County]] in 1854. The same year, however, voters decided that [[Nicolaus, California|Nicolaus]] would be a better location, and the county seat was moved there. County voters returned to their first choice of Yuba City two years later, in 1856, and it has remained the county seat since.<ref name="History of Yuba City">{{Cite web |url=http://www.yubacity.net/100/history.aspx |title=History of Yuba City |access-date=October 11, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222110130/http://www.yubacity.net/100/history.aspx |archive-date=December 22, 2008  }}</ref>

Yuba City saw its first major influx of population after World War II, pushing residential areas west and south from the city's original center. Orchards were turned into residential areas as new homes were built for people migrating to the city.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.yubacity.net/documents/Finance/2007-2009-Biennial-Budget/Chapter-23.pdf |title=Yuba City At A Glance |access-date=October 11, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081030034533/http://www.yubacity.net/documents/Finance/2007-2009-Biennial-Budget/Chapter-23.pdf |archive-date=October 30, 2008  }}</ref>

===The Flood of 1955===
In December 1955, a series of storms dropped torrential rain throughout northern California. The deluge caused all the rivers in the region to overflow their banks and to break through levees. The Christmas Eve levee break at Yuba City was particularly disastrous, with 38 people losing their lives,<ref name="History of Yuba City" /> and heavy damage occurring in the downtown section. According to Dick Brandt, manager of the Yuba County airport in 1955, between 550 and 600 Sutter County residents were rescued from the floodwater by helicopter.<ref>View a 1955 KRON-TV special report featuring the flooding in Yuba City & Marysville: {{cite web |url=https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/191491 |title=Yuba City Floods (1955) - Bay Area Television Archive |access-date=June 13, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725164212/https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/191491 |archive-date=July 25, 2011  }}.</ref>

===The 1961 B-52 airplane crash===
On March 14, 1961, a [[Boeing B-52 Stratofortress]] carrying nuclear weapons, flying near Yuba City, encountered a pressurization problem, and had to drop to a lower altitude. Because of this, more fuel than expected was used, and the aircraft ran out of fuel. [[1961 Yuba City B-52 crash|It crashed before meeting]] with a tanker aircraft. The pilot gave the bailout command, and the crew egressed at 10,000&nbsp;ft, except for the pilot, who ejected at 4,000&nbsp;ft, while avoiding a populated area. The aircraft was destroyed. The weapons, two Mark 39 (3.8 megatons each) thermonuclear bombs (identified from declassified Department of Energy films and photographs) were destroyed on impact though no explosion took place, and there was no release of radioactive material as a result.<ref>{{Cite book  | last = Maggelet  | first = Michael H.  |author2=James C. Oskins   | title = Broken Arrow&nbsp;– The Declassified History of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Accidents  | publisher=[[Lulu.com]]  | year = 2008  | isbn = 978-1-4357-0361-2 }}{{self-published source|date=February 2020}}</ref>{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}}

===The 1976 school bus crash===
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On May 21, 1976, a school bus carrying members of the Yuba City High School's choir to a performance at [[Miramonte High School]] in [[Orinda, California]] plunged 28 feet off the exit ramp on [[Interstate 680 (California)|I-680]] at Marina Vista Road in [[Martinez, California]].  Twenty-seven students and one adult chaperone died and twenty-three students were seriously injured.<ref>Kulczyk, David. (2009). Death In California – The Bizarre, Freakish, and Just Curious Ways People Die in the Golden State.  Craven Street Books. P121 {{ISBN|978-1-884995-57-6}}</ref>

===The 1978 missing person case===
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On February 24, 1978, five young men from Yuba City,  Gary Dale Mathias, Jack Madruga, Jackie Huett, Theodore (Ted) Weiher and William Sterling, aged between 24 and 32 years, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. They went to a basketball game in [[Chico, California|Chico]] and on their way back drove up to a mountain road away from the main road back to Yuba, where their car had been found later, undamaged and with enough gas to drive back to Yuba City.

Four of the men were later found in and near a trailer on June 4 of the same year. Ted Weiher was found inside the trailer, starved, covered in blankets. Inside the trailer there was enough food to supply all five men for about a year, and enough paper and wood to light a fire, but nothing was used this way. The corpses and bones of three of the other men were found outside the trailer, but Gary Mathias was never found.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2017/12/7/mathias-group-from-yuba-city|title=The Mathias Group from Yuba City - Strange deaths on U.S. mountains|website=strangeoutdoors.com|date=December 8, 2017 |access-date=April 29, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429192553/https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2017/12/7/mathias-group-from-yuba-city|archive-date=April 29, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/07/06/5-boys-who-never-come-back/f8b30b11-baeb-4351-89f3-26456a76a4fb/|title=5 'Boys' Who Never Come Back|first=Cynthia|last=Gorney|date=July 6, 1978|access-date=April 29, 2018|via=www.washingtonpost.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316235342/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/07/06/5-boys-who-never-come-back/f8b30b11-baeb-4351-89f3-26456a76a4fb/|archive-date=March 16, 2018}}</ref>

===The 1994 mosque burning===
Yuba City has been home to a significant Muslim population, including [[Pakistani Americans]] descended from {{circa}} 1902 immigrants.  In 1994 the Muslim community completed a mosque that cost an estimated $1.8 million and many hours of donated work. Soon after, the mosque was destroyed by an act of [[arson]], the first time that a mosque was destroyed in the United States.  Eventually the mosque was rebuilt with help of [[Sikh]]s, [[Mormons]], Christians, and other groups.  The story is told in the 2012 documentary ''[[An American Mosque (film)|An American Mosque]]''.

===The 2020 police brutality incident===
On April 12, 2020, a retired 64 year old veteran named Gregory Gross was assaulted by Yuba City police officers Joshua Jackson, Scott Hansen and Nathan Livingston after they had charged Gross for driving while intoxicated.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date= |title=California Cops Sued After DUI Suspect Ends Up Paralyzed |url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article257066912.html |access-date=August 22, 2023 |website=The Sacramento Bee}}</ref> Gross was handcuffed and compliant at the time of the incident. After twisting his arm and stating that he was now using "pain compliance techniques," Jackson proceeded to throw Gross face first into the ground, severing his vertebrae and leaving him permanently paralyzed.<ref name=":0">{{Citation |title=[WARNING: GRAPHIC] U.S. Army Veteran Settles California Police Brutality Litigation #police |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz5prjhYGNg |access-date=August 22, 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=mharris@appealdemocrat.com |first=Michaela Harris / |date=July 11, 2023 |title='We're just against police brutality': YCPD settles over $20 million after run-in leaves man paralyzed |url=https://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/we-re-just-against-police-brutality-ycpd-settles-over-20-million-after-run-in-leaves/article_98c7bf6c-204f-11ee-a8e6-e34003d52d11.html |access-date=August 22, 2023 |website=Appeal-Democrat |language=en}}</ref> Jackson was afterwards allowed to retire, while Hansen and Livingston remained officers with the Yuba City Police Department.<ref name=":0" /> No charges have been brought against any of the officers, despite body camera video emerging which captured the prolonged abuse of the handcuffed senior citizen.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" />

In 2022, after several surgeries and years of physical therapy, Gross sued the police department, ultimately winning a $20 million settlement, which was one of the largest such settlements in U.S. history.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=July 11, 2023 |title=California man paralyzed from run-in with police gets $20 million settlement |url=https://apnews.com/article/paralyzed-man-police-california-lawsuit-43cd3b316da99f502d16091330803028 |access-date=August 22, 2023 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" />