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Marysville Buttes (Sutter Buttes) Gas Field Geologic map Marysville Buttes (Sutter Buttes) Gas Field Geologic Cross Section with 3x vertical exaggeration. The Sutter Buttes (Maidu: Histum Yani or Esto Yamani, Wintun: Olonai-Tol, Nisenan: Estom Yanim) are a small circular complex of eroded volcanic lava domes which rise as buttes above the flat plains of the Sacramento Valley in Sutter County ...
Sutter County also has the State Feather River Wildlife Area, consisting of the Nelson Slough, O'Connor Lakes, Abbott Lake, Shanghai Bend, and Morse Road Units in Sutter County. Also, a 1,795-acre (7.26 km 2) State Park in the Sutter Buttes. In addition, there are the state public trust lands of the Feather, Bear and Sacramento rivers as well ...
The Sutter Buttes are a precious ecosystem, they say, filled with delicate tribal artifacts and threatened species. It isn't the same, they argue, as a state park in the immense Sierra Nevada or ...
Butte County is named for the visually striking +2,000-foot (610 m) Sutter Buttes in neighboring Sutter County. [10] Butte County was incorporated as one of California's 27 original counties on February 18, 1850. The county went across the present limits of the Tehama, Plumas, Colusa, and Sutter Counties. [11]
The Sutter Buttes in Northern California. Live Oak is located at (39.274518, -121.662003 [7]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.5 square miles (6.5 km 2), all of it land.
Recently, a petition was filed to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to change the name of the Sutter Buttes.
19th century etching depicting the Sutter Buttes in the Sacramento Valley. The terrain of the Sacramento Valley is primarily flat grasslands that become lusher as one moves east from the rain shadow of the Coast Ranges toward the Sierra. Unlike the San Joaquin Valley, which in its pre-irrigation state was a vegetation-hostile desert, the ...
The Sutter Buttes loom in the background while two tundra swans swim in a flooded rice field in 2014. The volcanic ring’s most recent name revision occurred in 1949 when it was called the ...