Rumsey is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP)[1] in Yolo County, California.

It is located 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Esparto,[3] in the Capay Valley, in the northwestern part of the county.

In 1888 it was moved two miles north to the terminus of the Vaca Valley and Clear Lake Railroad, and the name was changed to "Rumsey".

[3] Cache Creek was temporarily blocked north of Rumsey by a landslide caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake: "Our Rumsey correspondent mentions the fall of Cache Creek as a result of an earthquake shock Tuesday night.

Upon investigation by the officials of the Water Company it was found that a landslide had dammed the Creek near the Leonard ranch in Lake county...."[4] The creek subsequently broke through, causing severe flooding in Rumsey.