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Formed in 1927, the Gridley-Biggs Cemetery District is located in the southeastern corner of Butte County and contains the communities of Gridley, Biggs and Richvale. The District is bordered by the Oroville Cemetery District to the east, abuts the county line on the south and west and extends north roughly to Nelson-Shippee Road. The District owns and operates the Gridley-Biggs Cemetery loca...
Butte County is named for the Sutter Buttes in neighboring Sutter County; butte means "small knoll" or "small hill" in French. Butte County was incorporated as one of California's 27 original counties on February 18, 1850. The county went across the present limits of the Tehama, Plumas, Colusa, and Sutter Counties. Between November 8 and 25, 2018, a major wildfire, the Camp Fire, destroyed mos...
Please add those who were born, lived or died in Oroville, California. Oroville is located on the banks of the Feather River, which flows from the Sierra Nevada onto the flat floor of the California Central Valley. During the California Gold Rush, it was created as the Feather River's head of navigation to serve gold miners. The town was originally named "Ophir City", but was later changed to...
Butte College is a public community college in the Butte-Glenn Community College District in Chico, Orland, and Oroville, California. Wikipedia
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Butte County, South Dakota. Official Website Butte County was named from the numerous buttes which rise abruptly from the prairies in the area. The county seat is in Belle Fourche, which is also known as the "Center of the Nation." The county was established in the state of South Dakota on March 2, 1883. The name Belle Fourche came...
Wikipedia =California State University, Chico (Chico State) is the second-oldest campus in the 23 campus California State University system. It is located in Chico, California, about ninety miles north of Sacramento. As of the Fall 2014 semester, the university had a total enrollment of 17,287 students. The university offers 126 types of Bachelor's degrees, 35 types of Master's degrees, and fou...
Butte County Cemetery is located at the intersection of County Center Drive and Court Street in Oroville near the county courthouse. The first recorded burial was Thomas Armstrong, who died 16 July 1862 and the last burial was Ray Scott, who died 17 July 1980. Over 1200 persons were interred during the cemetery's 118 years of operation (at time of publication in 1980). The original records for ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Butte County, Idaho. Official Website History The first settlement in Butte County occurred about four miles south of the present town site of Arco in 1878. The settlement was then known by the names of Kennedy Crossing and Lower Crossing of the Lost River and was located in eastern Alturas County. Once the post office was establi...
This project is for those buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oroville, California. Land for Memorial Park Cemetery was deeded to the District on February 25, 1929 by J.N. Watt for $10.00. The deed states "no outhouse or slaughter-house shall be erected." It consists of approximately 66 acres, 40 of which are developed and approximately 14,800 are interred. Mrs. Ernestine Withers was the first b...