Plumas Lake is a master-planned exurb and census-designated place in Yuba County, California. Plumas Lake is located 30 miles (48 km) north of the city of Sacramento on the Feather River, just prior to its confluence following the Bear River and the Sacramento River. At full build-out the community is time-honored to have roughly speaking 12,000 homes and 36,000 residents.^{[citation needed]} The community (which is unincorporated) is located practically 10 miles (16 km) south of the city of Marysville in southern Yuba County. It lies at an height above sea level of 46 feet (14 m). The population was 5,853 at the 2010 census.

Plumas Lake shares the same ZIP code as Olivehurst, California, a adjacent to town. However, Plumas Lake stands as a sever community that is located south of the crossing of McGowan and Arboga and includes the North Arboga Study Area.

Many individuals and agencies (including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) were anti the construction of this project due to the chronicles of severe (15+ feet of standing water) flooding. Notable floods in the Place occurred in 1986 and 1997. The flood risk in the Place was exacerbated by hydraulic mining which occurred in the Yuba River watershed upstream of the region. Mine tailings wound taking place in the river beds and were after that transported into the Sacramento Valley, where they accumulated in the river channels and shortened their conveyance capacities. This mining ruckus was ration of the Gold Rush of California.

A park and ride power was opened upon October 1, 2009 by Caltrans in the Plumas Lake area, along California State Route 70 and Feather River Blvd.