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The Grid

Sacramento’s original street plan of lettered and numbered streets, laid out in 1848.

In December 1848 John Sutter Jr. and Samuel Brannan had Army Captain William H. Warner draft the layout of the city. It had 26 lettered and 31 numbered streets.

The grid extends from C Street to Broadway and from Front Street to Alhambra Boulevard. Historic districts such as Poverty Ridge lie within the original 1848 grid.

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Questions people ask

Who laid out Sacramento’s street grid?

Captain William H. Warner drafted the official layout for John Sutter Jr. and Samuel Brannan in 1848.

Related terms

  • MidtownThe neighborhood just east of downtown, known for tree-lined streets, Victorians, restaurants and the monthly Second Saturday art walk.
  • Alkali FlatSacramento’s oldest surviving neighborhood, with homes built 1853⁠–⁠1869.
  • John SutterThe Swiss-born founder of Sutter’s Fort (1803⁠–⁠1880), whose land grant started Sacramento but whose own ventures failed in the Gold Rush.
  • SacramentoCalifornia’s state capital, a city of about 525,000 people at the meeting of the Sacramento and American Rivers, and the oldest incorporated city in the state.

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