For some of our quadrangle caches it has been find the name, find the namesake, find a place nearby to place a cache. With Yuba City it was a little different. For one thing, I lived in Yuba City for 16 years and taught at Yuba City High School for 35. For another, retiredprof and others have reduced the areas available as they have made the Yuba-Sutter area cache-rich.
When I first investigate a quadrangle I go to MapTech to find the coordinates of its namesake. For Yuba City, those coordinates were N 38º 08’ 26” W 121º 36’ 57”. When I put that into the navigation program of our Prius it told me to go to 807 Shasta St. I lived at 805 Shasta for my first 7 years in town (I told you this one was different). Since, weirdly enough, much of the Yuba City quadrangle is in Yuba County – Yuba City is not in Yuba County – so our placement is recognizes this fact with its view.
The Quadrangle boundaries are:
N 39º 07’ 30” and N 39º 15’ 00”
W 121º 30’ 00” and W 121º 37’ 30”
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has many missions. At one time, a major mission of the USGS was the supplying of topographic maps of the United States on several scales. Our cache series is based on the 7.5-minute quadrangle series.
The term quadrangle is used, instead of quadrilateral or rectangle, because the sides of these blocks are curved. The USGS divided the United States into quadrangles that are 7.5 minutes by 7.5 minutes. Since a degree is divided into 60 minutes, a quadrangle one degree by one degree contains 64 of these quadrangles.
The cache is NOT in the base of the nearby memorial.