Bryte is a former town in Yolo County, California

Yolo County, California

Yolo County is a county located in the northern part of the U.S. state of California, bordered by the other counties of Sacramento, Solano, Napa, Lake, Colusa, and Sutter. The city of Woodland is its county seat, though Davis is its largest city....

, now forming part of West Sacramento

West Sacramento, California

West Sacramento is a city in Yolo County, California. It is contiguous with Sacramento, but is separated by the Sacramento River which is also the county line, so West Sacramento is in a different county than Sacramento...

. It is located just west of the Sacramento River

Sacramento River

The Sacramento River is an important watercourse of Northern and Central California in the United States. The largest river in California, it rises on the eastern slopes of the Klamath Mountains, and after a journey south of over , empties into Suisun Bay, an arm of the San Francisco Bay, and...

 in the eastern portion of the county. Bryte's ZIP Code

ZIP Code

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 is 95605 and its area code 916

Area code 916

North American area code 916 is an area code based in Sacramento, California. The telephone area code was one of the first three original area codes established in California in October, 1947. It covered the far northern portion of the state. It was split in a flash-cut on October, 26, 1957, at...

. It lies at an elevation of 23 feet (7 m).

Bryte was named after Mike Bryte, an early dairy farmer on whose land the town arose.http://www.cityofwestsacramento.org/Facts/Past.cfm

A post office opened in Bryte in 1915.

External links

• Bryte at the USGS site
• History of West Sacramento