Butte County Board of Supervisors

Chairman Bill Connelly
25 County Center Drive, Suite 200
Oroville, CA 95965
530.552.3300
Fax: 530.538.7120

City of Oroville
Butte County


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Chico Chamber of Commerce

​Coreena Conley CEO & President
180 East 4th Street, Suite 120
Chico, CA 95927
Phone: (530) 891-5556
Butte County Demographics
State Wide Emergency Resources
Updated 6/21/2024

I Primary Emergency Providers in Butte County


Butte County Sheriff Office

Sheriff Kory L. Honea
5 Gillick Way
Oroville, CA 95965
Phone: 530.538.7321

Butte County Emergency Management

Annie Mannel Administrative Analyst
April Barnes Administrative Analyst
Oroville, CA 95965
Phone: 530.552.3333
Fax: 530.538.7120

Communication & 911 Center

Cheri Lynn Eklund
308 Nelson Avenue
Oroville, CA 95965
Phone: 530.552.3200
Fax:. 530.538.6419

II Hospitals & Fire Departments
& Emergency Service Providers


Enola Medical Center

Enola Foundation
1531 Esplanade
Chico, CA 95926
(530) 332-7300
800-822-8102


Oroville Hospital

General Contact
(Stroke Receiving Center)
2767 Olive Hwy
Oroville, CA 95966
(530) 533-8500


Orchard Hospital

240 Spruce Street
Gridley, CA 95948
(530) 846-9000
Fax (530) 846-9027


Adventist Health Feather River

(Stroke Receiving Center)
5125 Skyway,
Paradise, CA 95969
(530) 872-2000

Butte County EMS

Marty Marshall
333 Huss Drive Ste 100
Chico. CA 95928
530-332-5555

Butte County Fire

Garrett Sjolund, Butte Unit Fire Chief
Butte County Fire Stations
176 Nelson Avenue
Oroville CA, 95965
Phone: 530.538.7111
Fax: 530.538.7401


Chico Fire Department

Chief Standridge
842 Salem Street
Chico, CA 95927
(530) 897-3400


Oroville Fire Department

Chris Tenns Acting Fire Chief
2055 Lincoln Street
Oroville, CA 95966
(530) 538-2480

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From Radio Frequencies.Com


Butte County AREA

Dale Anderson KK6EVX Emergency Coordinator
W6SCR Repeater
145.290 -0.6 PL 110.9
Monthly Meeting
Veteran’s Memorial Hall
554 Rio Lindo Ave
Oroville, CA

Golden Empire Amateur Radio Club

Sheriff Reserve Communications
PO BOX 508
CHICO CA 95927-0508

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Sacramento Valley Regional ARES
Jay Ballinger N6SAC
916.622.2746

III Non Profit & Community Interest Organizations In Butte County


Amerian Red Cross

California Gold County Country
1565 Exposition Blvd,
Sacramento, CA 95815
Phone: +1 916-993-7070

United Way Of Northern California

Larry Olmstead President & CEO
2500 Floral Ave, Ste 20
Chico CA 95973
530.809.4663

Salvation Army Chico Corps

Lieutenants Jeffrey & Kristin Boyd
99 E Park Ave
Chico CA 95928
(530) 776-1009

True North Housing Alliance

The Torres Street Shelter
Taylor Storey Executive Director
101 Silver Dollar Way
Chico, CA 95928
(530) 891-9048

The Jesus Center

Amber Abney-Bass Executive Director
2255 Fair St
Chico, CA 95928
(530) 345-2640

Oroville Rescue Mission Inc

Jim Hollingsworth Director
4250 Lincoln Blvd
Oroville, CA 95966
(530) 534-9541

IV Butte County County & City of Oroville


Butte County Board of Supervisors

Chairman Bill Connelly
25 County Center Drive, Suite 200
Oroville, CA 95965
530.552.3300
Fax: 530.538.7120

City of Oroville

Mayor, David Pittman
1735 Montgomery St.
Oroville, CA 95965
(530) 538-2401

City of Chico

Mayor Andrew Coolidge
Vice Mayor Kasey Reynolds
411 Main St,
Chico, CA 95928
(530) 896-7200

California State Association of Counties
President Chuck Washington
1100 K Street, Suite 101
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 327-7500
Cities in Butte County
1. City of Briggs

2. City of Gridley

3. Town of Paradise

IV Public Utilities & Vital Resources


PG&E, Pacific Gas and Electric

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P.O. Box 997300
Sacramento, CA 95899-7300
24-hour Power Outage Information Center
1-800-743-5002

California Department of Education

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1430 N Street
Sacramento, CA 95814-5901
General: 916-319-0800

California Department of Health

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PO Box 997377, MS 0500
Sacramento, CA 95899-7377
(916) 558-1784

California Department of Transportation

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1120 N Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
General Information:
(916) 654-2852

California Highway Patrol

Commissioner Sean Duryee
601 N 7th St,
Sacramento, CA 95811
916) 843-3000

V Radio and Television Stations


Action Now News

news@actionnewsnow.com
3460 Silverbell Rd.
Chico, CA 95973 USA
(530) 342-0141

Chico Enterprise-Record

Mike Wolcott Editor
mwolcott@chicoer.com
400 E. Park Ave.
Phone: 530.891.1234
Fax: 530.891.9204

KPAY 96.7 FM
News Talk
2654 Cramer Lane
Chico, CA 95928
530-345-0021
530-893-2121

KZAP 96.7 FM
Classic Hits
2654 Cramer Lane
Chico, CA 95928
530-345-0021
530-893-2121

KVOR
Variety
P.O. Box 9
Oroville, Ca 95965

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Radio Locator Com

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Chico Airport
Rod Dinger Airport Manager
150 Airpark Blvd
Chico, CA 95973
(530) 896-7699

Butte County Regional Transit

Communications Form
326 Huss Drive #125
Chico, CA 95928
(530) 809-4616

VI Central Valley Earthquake Hazards

Central Valley Earthquake Hazards
Those who are lucky enough to live in the northernmost part of the state enjoy spectacular scenery and remote vistas. The Trinity Mountains, Modoc Plateau, Shasta and Lassen peaks show how the forces that created them are still shaping the landscape today. But no matter where you live in the Northern and Northeastern parts of the state, you live in earthquake country. Understanding the risks and preparing to survive and recover can help keep you and your family safe. The Shasta Cascade area may seem remote from the well-known faults in the state such as the San Andreas. It may be a surprise that almost everyone in the region lives within 20 miles of an active fault. The Modoc plateau is a region of both active volcanism and faulting and much of the northeastern part of the state is being stretched apart by basin and range faults. Residents could also be affected by very large earthquakes further away and closer to the coast. It doesn’t take much shaking to trigger landslides that can quickly block roads and highways, isolating the region.

Oroville Dam/Risk of Collapse

Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of the Sacramento Valley. At 770 feet (235 m) high, it is the tallest dam in the U.S.[8] and serves mainly for water supply, hydroelectricity generation and flood control. The dam impounds Lake Oroville, the second largest man-made lake in the state of California, capable of storing more than 3.5 million acre feet (1.1 trillion US gallons; 4.3 trillion litres).[9]

Built by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), Oroville Dam is one of the key features of the California State Water Project (SWP), one of two major projects passed that set up California's statewide water system. Construction was initiated in 1961, and despite numerous difficulties encountered during its construction, including multiple floods and a major train wreck on the rail line used to transport materials to the dam site, the embankment was topped out in 1967 and the entire project was ready for use in 1968. The dam began to generate electricity shortly afterwards with completion of the Edward Hyatt Pump-Generating Plant, then the country's largest underground power station.

Since its completion in 1968, the Oroville Dam has allocated the flow of the Feather River from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta into the State Water Project's California Aqueduct, which provides a major supply of water for irrigation in the San Joaquin Valley as well as municipal and industrial water supplies to coastal Southern California, and has prevented large amounts of flood damage to the area—more than $1.3 billion between the years of 1987 and 1999.[10] The dam stops fish migration up the Feather River and the controlled flow of the river as a result of the Oroville Dam has affected riparian habitat. Multiple attempts at trying to counter the dam's impacts on fish migration have included the construction of a salmon/steelhead fish hatchery on the river, which began shortly after the dam was completed.

In February 2017, the main and emergency spillways threatened to fail, leading to the evacuation of 188,000 people living near the dam.[11] After deterioration of the main spillway largely stabilized[12] and the water level of the dam's reservoir dropped below the top of the emergency spillway, the evacuation order was lifted.[13] The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through California.[1] It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, and its motion is right-lateral strike-slip (horizontal). The fault divides into three segments, each with different characteristics and a different degree of earthquake risk. The slip rate along the fault ranges from 20 to 35 mm (0.79 to 1.38 in)/yr.[1]

The fault was identified in 1895 by Professor Andrew Lawson of UC Berkeley, who discovered the northern zone. It is often described as having been named after San Andreas Lake, a small body of water that was formed in a valley between the two plates. However, according to some of his reports from 1895 and 1908, Lawson actually named it after the surrounding San Andreas Valley.[2] Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Lawson concluded that the fault extended all the way into southern California.

In 1953, geologist Thomas Dibblee concluded that hundreds of miles of lateral movement could occur along the fault. A project called the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) near Parkfield, Monterey County, was drilled through the fault during 2004–2007 to collect material and make physical and chemical observations to better understand fault behavior.[3]
Lassen Volcanic National Park
All four types of volcanoes found in the entire world are represented in Lassen Volcanic National Park— shield (Prospect Peak), plug dome (Lassen Peak), Cinder Cone (Cinder Cone), and Composite (Brokeoff Volcano) volcanoes.In August of 1916, Lassen Volcanic National Park was established. The park and Lassen Peak take their name from Peter Lassen, one of the first white settlers in the northern Sacramento Valley, who discovered of a route through the mountains called the Lassen Trail.

To see these volcanic sites, Lassen Volcanic National Park offers both summer and winter weather activities. With over 150 miles of hiking trails, both day hiking and backpacking are popular summer activities. Winter conditions often begin as early as October and persist through June or July making snow play, snowshoeing, and backcountry skiing great options for cold months.

VII Maps of Butte County City of Chico


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