Oroville, California Official seal of Oroville, California Location of Oroville in California Location of Oroville in California Oroville, California is positioned in the US Oroville, California - Oroville, California Oroville is the governmental center of county of Butte County, California, United States.
Oroville is considered the gateway to Lake Oroville and Feather River recreational areas.
The town/city of Oroville has recently took in two locations in South Oroville, areas A and B, which have a combined populace of 2,725 citizens .
Enumeration Bureau estimated the populace of the town/city to be 17,996 as of January 1, 2016, up 1,908 citizens or 11.9 percent since 2010.
Oroville is positioned off of State Route 70, and is in close adjacency to State Route 99, which joins Butte County with Interstate 5.
Chico, California is positioned about 25 minutes north of the city, and Sacramento lies about an hour south.
6.1 Oroville Elementary School District 6.2 Oroville Union High School District Oroville is situated at the base of the foothills on the banks of the Feather River where it flows out of the Sierra Nevada onto the flat floor of the Sacramento Valley.
It was established as the head of navigation on the Feather River to supply gold miners amid the California Gold Rush.
The town was originally called "Ophir City", but the name was changed to Oroville when the first postal service opened in 1854 ("oro" is "gold" in Spanish). The City Of Oroville was incorporated on January 3, 1906.
Gold was found at Bidwell Bar, one of the first gold quarrying sites in California, bringing thousands of prospectors to the Oroville region seeking riches.
Now inundated by the waters of enormous Lake Oroville, which was filled in 1968, Bidwell Bar is memorialized by the Bidwell Bar Bridge, an initial remnant from the region and the first suspension bridge in California (California Historical Landmark #314).
In the early 20th century the Western Pacific Railroad instead of assembly of the all-weather Feather River Canyon route through the Sierra Nevadas giving it the nickname of "The Feather River Route".
Oroville would serve as an meaningful stop for the famous California Zephyr amid its 20-year run.
Oroville Chinese Temple The Chinese Temple (CHL #770 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places) is another monument to Oroville's storied past.
The olive-canning trade was established in Oroville by Freda Ehmann, the "mother of ripe olives." She assembled a large cannery in Oroville, and by 1900 was the president of the world's biggest canned olive factory.
Ishi, Oroville's most famous resident, was the last of the Yahi Indians and is considered the last "Stone Age" Indian to come out of the wilderness and into civilization.
When he appeared out of the hills in East Oroville in 1911, he was immediately thrust into the nationwide spotlight.
The Visitor's Center at Lake Oroville has a thorough exhibit and documentary film on Ishi and his life in society.
Archaeological finds place the northwestern border for the prehistoric Martis citizens in the Oroville area. Noacks was arrested and jailed in Chico's jail, but once word got out that the old pioneer had been murdered, the authorities moved him to the Butte County jail in Oroville for his safety.
Crum's friends knew that Noacks was in the county jail, and they made their way to Oroville with rope in hand.
Table Mountain Near Oroville Oroville is situated at the head of navigation on the Feather River.
The Yuba River flows into the Feather River near Marysville, California and these flow together to the Sacramento River.
Geologically, Oroville is situated at the meeting place of three provinces: the Central Valley alluvial plain to the west, the crystalline Sierra Nevada to the SE and the volcanic Cascade Mountains to the north.
Oroville sits on the easterly rim of the Great Valley, defined today by the floodplains of the Sacramento River and its tributaries.
Around Oroville these sediments are dominated by thick fans of Feather River sediments, but just east of this there is a thin, N-S band of late Cretaceous sediments.
These sit on top of the Sierran basement, which beneath easterly Oroville comprise greenschist-facies metavolcanic rocks of Jurassic age, giving way to granites of the Sierra batholith to the east.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Oroville has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csa" on climate maps. According to US climate data, on the average Oroville receives 30.7 inches of rain per year, which is about 20% less than the nationwide average, but somewhat higher than the average California rainfall. Climate data for Oroville Average rain days 11 10 9 7 4 2 0 0 1 4 8 10 66 The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Oroville had a populace of 15,546.
The ethnic makeup of Oroville was 11,686 (75.2%) White, 453 (2.9%) African American, 573 (3.7%) Native American, 1,238 (8.0%) Asian, 56 (0.4%) Pacific Islander, 554 (3.6%) from other competitions, and 986 (6.3%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 14,662 citizens (94.3% of the population) lived in homeholds, 72 (0.5%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 812 (5.2%) were institutionalized.
There were 5,646 homeholds, out of which 2,126 (37.7%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 1,893 (33.5%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 1,174 (20.8%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 430 (7.6%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 4,267 citizens (27.4%) under the age of 18, 1,969 citizens (12.7%) aged 18 to 24, 3,940 citizens (25.3%) aged 25 to 44, 3,417 citizens (22.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,953 citizens (12.6%) who were 65 years of age or older.
6,293 citizens (40.5% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 8,369 citizens (53.8%) lived in rental housing units.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.3 square miles (31.8 km ), of which, 12.2 square miles (31.7 km ) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km ) of it (0.16%) is water.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 30.1% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 19.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
Oroville is home to a considerable number of ethnic Hmong.
Every year there is an annual festival amid autumn which was originally a harvest festival but now called the New Year celebration. In 2010, 773 citizens of Hmong descent lived in the town/city of Oroville, 726 in South Oroville, 640 in Thermalito, and 140 in Oroville East. In 2010, the Oroville/Chico Hmong improve was the 9th biggest in the Western US. American Indians made up 3.7% of Oroville's populace in 2010. The biggest tribal group is the small-town Maidu.
The Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California is headquartered in Oroville, with 306 members. It contains world's biggest exhibition of Maidu culture is positioned in Oroville East, at the Lookout Museum.
The 2008 cost of living index in Oroville was 79.0 (low, U.S.
As the neighboring town/city of Chico experiences expansion in retail, education, and techonology industries, Oroville has experienced populace growth associated with commuters thriving to lower property costs, and a lesser cost of living. According to the City's 2008 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 2 Oroville Hospital 1,233 9 City of Oroville 119 Photograph of Lake Oroville in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain peaks.
The Oroville Dam is one of the 20 biggest dams in the world, the biggest earth filled dam in the US, and the tallest dam in the US.
This dam is 770 feet (235 m) tall and 6920 feet (2109 m) long, and it impounds Lake Oroville, which has a capacity of 3,500,000 acre feet (4.3 km3) of water, making it the second biggest reservoir in California.
Mother Orange Tree, positioned in Oroville, is the earliest of all Northern California orange trees.
The annual Oroville Salmon Festival is held on the fourth Saturday of September at both the Hatchery and downtown Oroville.
Oroville Chinese Temple - assembled in 1863 by members of the Chinese Popular Religion.
The Oroville Municipal Airport is positioned south of State Route 162 west of State Route 70.
Oroville has a several parks featuring playgrounds, picnic tables and benches. Parks and recreation areas include Bedrock Park, Centennial Plaza, Hammon Park, Hewitt Park, Rotary Park, Riverbend Park, Nelson Sports Complex, Gary Nolan Baseball Complex, and the Feather River Bike Trail. The Oroville Union High School District includes all of the greater Oroville area, including many neighborhoods that are not inside the town/city limits of Oroville.
The District includes two traditional high schools, Las Plumas High School and Oroville High School, and Prospect High School, which functions as a continuation/remedial high school.
The town/city also has an Adult School, Oroville Adult School.
Oroville Elementary School District Oroville Union High School District Oroville High School Oroville Adult School California State University, Chico (in Chico, 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Oroville) Oroville is home to KOYO-LP, a low-power improve airways broadcast owned and directed by the Bird Street Arbor Day Media Project.
The station was assembled by various volunteers from Oroville and around the region in April 2002 at the second Prometheus Radio Project barnraising.
Oroville Hospital is a general acute care hospital with a Level III trauma center and offers basic emergency care positioned in the City of Oroville.
The Oroville Fire Department is responsible for calls inside the town/city jurisdiction of approximately 13 square miles (34 km2) with a populace of 16,260 (as of 2015). Oroville has three designated superfund cleanup sites, two of which have been cleaned up and delisted: a Koppers Co.
This Is Oroville, a novelty song recorded and released as a 45 rpm single in 1987 by small-town teacher Steve Herman, is generally considered to be among the more prominent California 'city songs'. "The Outlaw of Josey Wales" (1976) with actor, Clint Eastwood, was partially filmed in Oroville U-2 Spy Plane Crash North of Oroville on January 31, 1980. U-2 Spy Plane Crash in front of Oroville Mercury-Register on August 7, 1996. June 1, 2011, a tornado rated at EF-2, hit northwest of Oroville, causing momentous damage to a ranch and a garage. February 7, 2017, after heavy rains, a defect formed in a spillway of Oroville Dam.
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