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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.
The north of Grass Valley is traversed by Nevada State Route 294; for 5 miles (8.0 km) into the valley it is paved.It becomes the unimproved road, Grass Valley Road, and goes through the valley center-east near the mountain foothills; 25 miles (40 km) [7] further it reaches Goldbanks (site) at the south terminus of Grass Valley, the northwest region of the Tobin Range.
Grass Valley geologic map showing the underlying granodiorite Grass Valley geologic cross section showing the Empire vein. A Granodiorite body five miles (8 km) long, north to south, and up to two miles (3.2 km) wide, underlies the district. This body intruded into surrounding metamorphic rocks.
Grass Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) in northeastern Pershing County, Nevada, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,161. [2] Geography
Grass Valley Wilderness is a wilderness area in San Bernardino County, California, near Ridgecrest. It mainly consists of low-lying hills and flat desert covered by vegetation typical of the Mohave Desert, like creosote bush, desert scrub, and isolated stands of Joshua trees. Fauna consists of the desert tortoise and the Mohave ground squirrel.
State Route 294 (SR 294) is a 7.973-mile (12.831 km) state highway in southeastern Humboldt County, Nevada, United States, that runs along the northernmost part of Grass Valley Road and connects Winnemucca with the Grass Valley area south of the town.
I-80 west (SR 193 west) / Grass Valley Highway to Lincoln Way – Sacramento: Interchange; north end of I-80 / SR 193 overlap; Grass Valley Highway is former SR 49 south; I-80 exit 119B: North Auburn: 6.38: Bell Road to I-80 – Auburn Municipal Airport, Reno, Sacramento: Bear River: 11.37
The valley is bounded on the west and southwest by the Sevier Plateau, on the east by the Parker Range, and is connected to Plateau Valley to the north. [2]It is also the home of Otter Creek Reservoir (and its eponymous state park), and the towns of Angle, Greenwich, and Koosharem.