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roughly 75 miles
Oroville is considered the gateway to Lake Oroville and Feather River recreational areas. The Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California is headquartered in Oroville .
With a crime rate of 58 per one thousand residents, Oroville has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes – from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One’s chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 17.
Butte County
The town of Millerton was the first county seat of Fresno County before it was flooded in 1942 after the completion of the Friant Dam. This Butte County mining town is now underneath Lake Oroville . Bidwell’s Bar suffered a quick decline after the Gold Rush, as only 30 people remained in the town by 1882.
Roger Bales, a professor of engineering with the University of California’s Sierra Nevada Research Institute, said that the overabundance of water in Lake Oroville was in part attributable to climate change. “It doesn’t take much warming to change snowstorms into rainstorms,” he said.
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Oroville , California gets 34 inches of rain, on average, per year. The US average is 38 inches of rain per year. Oroville averages 0 inches of snow per year. The US average is 28 inches of snow per year.
422 miles
The Chico CA crime rate for 2018 was 648.12 per 100,000 population, a 45.1% increase from 2017. The Chico CA crime rate for 2017 was 446.68 per 100,000 population, a 38.91% increase from 2016. The Chico CA crime rate for 2016 was 321.55 per 100,000 population, a 8.76% decline from 2015.
130 miles
167′
The dam impounds Lake Oroville , the second largest man – made lake in the state of California, capable of storing more than 4.4 km3. It is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of the Sacramento Valley.
722′
The dam, 770 feet (235 metres) high and 6,920 feet (2,109 metres) long at its crest, has a volume of about 78,000,000 cubic yards (59,635,000 cubic metres) and forms a reservoir of some 3,500,000 acre- feet (4,300,000,000 cubic metres) capacity.