Oroville, California

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• Butte County

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1891 1980

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 7 records

• Oroville Carnegie Librarylisted 2007
• Oroville Chinese Templelisted 1976
• Oroville Innlisted 1990
• State Theatrelisted 1991
• US Post Office-Oroville Mainlisted 1985
• Oroville Commercial District (old)listed 1983
• Pence Hotel and Post Officelisted 2026

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1891 USGS Chico quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Chico quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Chico quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1912 USGS Oroville quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1942 USGS Oroville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1944 USGS Oroville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Oroville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Oroville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
• 1970 USGS Oroville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1980 USGS Chico quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,265 fires within 5 miles of Oroville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33,579 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 196 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Yuman (historical)
• Lava Beds (historical)
• South Oroville
• Thermalito
• Kramm
• Oroville Junction

Every fire recorded in Butte County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Oroville: 18 past producers, 12 unknowns, 10 producers, 7 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Butte County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oroville in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 4 flood, 3 tornado, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain. The reports record 7 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Butte County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 277570. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.