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Sutter Creek is an incorporated city in Amador County, California, in the heart of the Gold Country along State Route 49, about 45 miles southeast of Sacramento.

Sutter Creek takes its name from John A. Sutter, who sent a timber-cutting party to the area in 1846 and mined along the creek in 1848 after the Gold Rush began, and the settlement that grew around his camp eventually took the creek's name.

Settled in 1848, Sutter Creek gained a post office in 1852, became a town in 1854, and incorporated as a city on February 11, 1913.

Known as the 'Jewel of the Mother Lode,' the town itself is registered as California Historical Landmark No. 322.

Although placer gold was found early on, gold-bearing quartz deposits discovered in 1851 turned Sutter Creek into a boomtown and made hard-rock quartz mining the mainstay of its economy for a century.

The Central Eureka mine, begun in 1869, had reached the 2,300-foot level by 1932 and was the best-paying mine in Sutter Creek by 1939; the town's mines were closed in 1942 for the Second World War, and the Central Eureka reopened afterward and operated into the 1950s.

Sutter Creek is home to the Knight Foundry, established in 1873 by Samuel Knight, which is America's last water-powered foundry and machine shop, with its original machinery still in place; it is a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The population of Sutter Creek was 2,646 at the 2020 census, up from 2,501 at the 2010 census, within a city of just 2.7 square miles at an elevation of about 1,188 feet.

The 2020 census counted 1,265 households in Sutter Creek, with a small average household size of 2.09 people, and about 55.5% of its homes were owner-occupied.

Sutter Creek has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate, with long, hot, extremely dry summers and cool winters that deliver about 28.5 inches of precipitation a year.