Washington (originally, Indiana Camp)[5] is a census-designated place located in Nevada County, California.

[3] Washington is located on the banks of the South Yuba River and has a population of approximately two hundred people.

There is a hotel/bar and restaurant, grocery store, a one-room schoolhouse that has educated students continuously for one hundred years, and two trailer park campgrounds.

Filmmaker Sara Ross-Samko is making a feature-length documentary portrait of the town.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2), all of it land.

43 households (47.8%) were made up of individuals, and 10 (11.1%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

There were 131 housing units at an average density of 69.0 per square mile (26.6/km2), of which 55 (61.1%) were owner-occupied, and 35 (38.9%) were occupied by renters.

[10] Federally, Washington is in California's 1st congressional district, represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa.