Pleasant Grove is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in Sutter County

Sutter County, California

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, California

California

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, United States

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. Pleasant Grove is 7.5 miles (12.1 km) southeast of Nicolaus

Nicolaus, California

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. Pleasant Grove has a post office

Post office

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 with ZIP code

ZIP Code

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95668. The community originated as a wagon and freight stop, and it earned the nickname Gouge-Eye after a saloon fight in which one man gouged out the eye of another. The post office opened as Pleasant Grove Creek in 1867, became Pleasant Grove in 1875, and moved 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east in 1940.