Washington (originally, Indiana Camp) is a census-designated place located in Nevada County, California. Washington is located upon the banks of the South Fork of the Yuba River and has a population of nearly two hundred people. There is a hotel/bar and restaurant, grocery store, a one-room schoolhouse that has educated students for all time for one hundred years, and two announcement park campgrounds. The height is 2,612 feet (796 m). The population was 185 at the 2010 census. According to the 2020 census, the population was 137 taking into account a median age of 61.7.

The population fluctuates seasonally and the town businesses rely upon the tourist trade as the population increases in the summer. It was settled during the California Gold Rush in 1849 and produced a large amount of placer gold. Hard rock mines were standard soon afterword and were enormously productive. Washington is the only deal in the vicinity to have survived to this day. There remains today much evidence of placer gold mining, hydraulic mining, and hard-rock mining. During the mining period, many Chinese lived there.

Washington’s biggest businesses are its two campsites, Little Town Campground (formerly Gene’s Pine Aire Campground) and the River Rest, which has been in concern since the 1960s through rotate owners. Filmmaker Sara Ross-Samko is making a feature-length documentary portrait of the town.

The ZIP Code is 95986. The community is inside area code 530.