Rays Flat, California

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Rays Flat is a former settlement in Nevada County, California.^[1] Rays Flat is located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southwest of Grass Valley.^[1] It still appeared on maps as of 1873.^[1]

Nevada County is a county in the Sierra Nevada of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 98,764. The county seat is Nevada City.

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.6 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, with 18.7 million and 9.7 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second-most populous, after New York City. California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The City and County of San Francisco is both the country's second-most densely populated major city after New York City and the fifth-most densely populated county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs.

The city of Grass Valley is the largest city in the western region of Nevada County, California, United States. Situated at roughly 2,500 feet (760 m) elevation in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, this historic northern Gold Country city is 57 miles (92 km) by car from the state capitol in Sacramento, 64 miles (103 km) from Sacramento International Airport, 88 miles (142 km) west of Reno, and 143 miles (230 km) northeast of San Francisco. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 12,860.

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References

1 2 3 Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 493. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

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[CGN-1] 1 2 3 Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 493. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Nevada County, California, United States
County seat: Nevada City
Cities and towns	Grass Valley Nevada City Truckee	Nevada County map
CDPs	Alta Sierra Floriston Graniteville Kingvale‡ Lake of the Pines Lake Wildwood North San Juan Penn Valley Rough and Ready Soda Springs Washington
Unincorporated communities	Alta Hill Bitney Corner Carpenter Valley Casey Corner Cedar Ridge Chicago Park Coleman Crystal Lake Dew Drop French Corral Forest Knolls Gaston Gateway Gold Flat Higgins Corner Hills Flat Hinton Hirschdale Junction House Kres Lake City Marsh Mill Mooney Flat Mystic Newtown Norden North Bloomfield North Columbia Peardale Pinecrest Polaris Relief Scotts Flat Sebastopol Spring Hill The Oaks Town Talk Union Mills Willow Valley Wolf You Bet Yuba Pass
Ghost towns	Alpha Badger Hill Balaklava Bald Eagle Baltimore Town Bear River Pines Bear Valley Beckmans Flat Birchville Blue Tent Boca Boston Ravine Brass Wire Bar Bridgeport Brighton House Bronco Buena Vista Burckhalter Burks Bar Camp Spaulding Cascade Diggings Cedar Kress Chalk Bluff Champion Cherokee Coyoteville Crystal Springs Democrat Diamond Creek Diggers Bar Dillon Drum Eagle Bird Elida Eureka Farad Fernley Flood Forest Spring French Lake Frenchmans Bar Gelatt Glenbrook Gold Hill Hacketville Hobart Mills Hunt's Hill Iceland Indian Springs Jericho Jones Bar Kentucky Flat La Barr Meadows Lafayette Hill Langs Little York Louisa Lowell Hill Malakoff Maybert Meadow Lake Melburn Hill Missouri Flat Moores Flat Mount Zion Mountain Well Mountain View Negro Flat Ohm Omega Orleans Flat Pittsburg Pleasant Flat Prosser Prosser Creek Providence Randolph House Rays Flat Red Diamond Red Dog Remington Hill Rose's Corral Shands Shelby Flat Shellback Six Mile House Snow Point Snow Tent Spenceville Spiritsville Stockings Flat Sunset View Sweetland Tsekankan Union Hill Ustoma Virginia House Waloupa White Cloud Wickes Wilsonville Wokodot Woolsey Flat Yamako Zinc House
Footnotes	‡This CDP also has portions in an adjacent county or counties