Plumas County, California
Plumas County · Quincy is the seat · Sacramento is the capital of California · Portola is a city · Chester is a community · Greenville is a community · Susanville is Lassen County
Quincy is the seat. Sacramento is the capital. Portola is the city, not the hall. This is Sierra, not the coast.
Plumas County, California, was created 18 March 1854 from Butte, and named for the Feather River — Río de las Plumas. Quincy is the county seat. Sacramento is the capital of California. Quincy is not the capital. Portola is not the capital. Do not read this page as Autauga-with-a-pine. Do not read this page as Lassen-with-a-rename. Do not read this page as Quincy, Massachusetts, or Quincy, Illinois. Prattville is Autauga. Susanville is Lassen. Quincy, Massachusetts, is Norfolk County. None of those is this oval.
Portola is the incorporated city — not the hall. Quincy is an unincorporated census-designated place and the seat. Chester, Greenville, Taylorsville, Crescent Mills, and Graeagle are communities — remainder, not a second seat. Lake Almanor is water, not a second government.
This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — Sierra remainder patrol and the Correctional Facility this badge still holds at 56 Abernethy Lane — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Plumas County.
Five Supervisors at 520 Main. They do not sit as the State Assembly.
Plumas is a general-law county. A five-member Board of Supervisors, elected by district, sits at the Plumas County Courthouse, 520 Main Street, Quincy, CA 95971. They fund roads, the Main Street court, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Portola City Council is a city body. The California Legislature sits in Sacramento. None of those is this Board.
The Plumas County Superior Court lists at 520 Main Street, Room 104, Quincy. A new Quincy courthouse has been proposed on Lawrence Street — confirm live court door before you travel; 520 Main remains the posted hall. Do not invent a closed Chester or Greenville branch as a live court. Confirm live at plumascounty.us and plumas.courts.ca.gov.
The Sheriff is a county officer (California Constitution Article XI; Government Code § 24000). This Sheriff is not on the 2026 gubernatorial table. Elections Code § 1300 (AB 759, 2022) moved sheriff and district attorney to the presidential primary. A sheriff elected in 2022 serves a six-year term; the next regular is the 2028 presidential primary. Plumas is general law. Last regular 7 June 2022. Take office at noon on the first Monday after January 1 succeeding election (Gov. Code § 24200). The Governor is 2026. That is a different desk in Sacramento.
Highway 70 is a canyon. The Feather is a river. Susanville is a different county.
State Route 70, State Route 89, and State Route 36 meet on this map. The Feather River and Lake Almanor are water, not a Lassen badge. Beckwourth Pass is a pass, not a second county. Plumas National Forest is land, not this jailer. Lassen is north — Susanville is that hall. Sierra is south — Downieville is that hall. Butte is west — Oroville is that hall. Nevada is south. Staff who paste a lake-resort photograph onto Main Street, or treat Quincy as the capital, or file Portola as this county government, or rewrite this county as Autauga-with-a-pine, are on the wrong county.
How a Sierra public finds Main Street, East Main, and Abernethy
Board of Supervisors / Courthouse: 520 Main Street, Quincy. Sheriff Headquarters: 1400 East Main Street, Quincy, CA 95971 — (530) 283-6375. Plumas County Correctional Facility: 56 Abernethy Lane, Quincy, CA 95971 — (530) 283-6267. Elections / Clerk-Recorder lists with the courthouse campus. Confirm live at plumascounty.us. A student who only knows a lake postcard, or a Sacramento photograph as this county, or treats Portola City Hall as Abernethy Lane, has not found this campus.
Abernethy Lane still jails. Portola PD does not. High Desert State Prison does not.
Crime in unincorporated Plumas — Quincy remainder, Chester, Greenville, Taylorsville, Graeagle, and the rest — is this Sheriff. Crime in Portola may be a city badge or this office — confirm live. This Sheriff is the primary patrol on almost this whole map. Plumas County Correctional Facility at 56 Abernethy Lane is this Sheriff’s house. Official doors did not show a separate county Department of Corrections taking this house — do not invent a jailer split.
CDCR is not this Sheriff. High Desert State Prison and the California Correctional Center sit in Lassen County (Susanville). CHP is a state badge. USFS is federal. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to a Susanville CDCR gate, to Oroville (Butte), or to Nevada City.
Care without inventing Lake Almanor as this county government
A peace order served in Chester remainder. A court-ordered transport from 56 Abernethy to 520 Main without becoming a lake-resort desk. Search and rescue in the Feather River canyon. Do not invent a church. Do not invent an ocean as this oval. Do not invent Sacramento as this hall.
What Plumas actually watches
Court calendar on Main Street. A wreck on Highway 70 in the Feather River Canyon. Snow on Beckwourth. High water on the Feather. Fire in the national forest interface. Coordination with CHP, USFS, Lassen’s Sheriff, and Sierra County’s Sheriff without becoming those departments. Coordination is mutual aid between offices, not a merger. Pines are geography. A lake is water. Neither is Susanville as this oval.
Quincy civic snapshot (verify official sources)
- State: California · County: Plumas · Seat: Quincy · Capital of California: Sacramento
- Map: Quincy · Portola · Chester · Greenville · SR 70 · SR 89 · the Feather
- Not Portola as the hall · Not the capital · Not Susanville / Lassen · Not Autauga-with-a-pine
- Board: five Supervisors at 520 Main Street (general law)
- Sheriff clock: not 2026 · last regular 2022 · next regular 2028 presidential primary · six-year bridge from AB 759
- Jail: Plumas County Correctional Facility, 56 Abernethy Lane — this Sheriff still holds it · court 520 Main Street
Orientation adapted from the California Constitution Article XI, Elections Code § 1300, Government Code §§ 24000, 24200, 25304, and 26600, Plumas County official pages (plumascounty.us), Plumas Superior Court locations, and the Secretary of State for education. The Sheriff of record is whatever those sources say today. Confirm HQ versus court versus jail on official pages before you travel.
What Quincy is not, as this county
- Not the capital of California. Sacramento is.
- Not Portola as the county government. Not Chester as the hall.
- Not Quincy, Massachusetts. Not Quincy, Illinois.
- Not Susanville / Lassen. Not High Desert State Prison as this jailer.
- Not Autauga-with-a-pine. Not an ocean postcard.
- Not the Governor (that desk is 2026 in Sacramento).
- Not a campaign flyer.