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Sunusi is a former Maidu settlement in Butte County, California. It was located on the east side of the Sacramento River on the Parrot Grant south of Parrot Landing. [1]
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Sunusi is a former Maidu settlement in Butte County, California. It was located on the east side of the Sacramento River on the Parrot Grant south of Parrot Landing. [1]
Yuba County is located in north-central Central Valley, California, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, its population was 81,575. Yuba County is included in the Yuba City metropolitan statistical area, which is also included in the Sacramento–Roseville combined statistical area. The county is in the Central Valley region along the Feather River; the county seat is Marysville.
The Shasta Cascade region of California is located in the northeastern and north-central sections of the state bordering Oregon and Nevada, including far northern parts of the Central Valley and the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
The Feather River is the principal tributary of the Sacramento River, in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. The river's main stem is about 73 miles (117 km) long. Its length to its most distant headwater tributary is just over 210 miles (340 km). The main stem Feather River begins in Lake Oroville, where its four long tributary forks join—the South Fork, Middle Fork, North Fork, and West Branch Feather Rivers. These and other tributaries drain part of the northern Sierra Nevada, and the extreme southern Cascades, as well as a small portion of the Sacramento Valley. The total drainage basin is about 6,200 square miles (16,000 km2), with approximately 3,604 square miles (9,330 km2) above Lake Oroville.
Lake Oroville is a reservoir formed by the Oroville Dam impounding the Feather River, located in Butte County, northern California. The lake is situated 5 miles (8 km) northeast of the city of Oroville, within the Lake Oroville State Recreation Area, in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Known as the second-largest reservoir in California, Lake Oroville is treated as a keystone facility within the California State Water Project by storing water, providing flood control, recreation, freshwater releases to assist in controlling the salinity intrusion into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and protecting fish and wildlife.
Cohasset is a census-designated place in Butte County, California, United States, approximately 17.7 miles (28.5 km) NNE of Chico, California. Its main street is named Cohasset Road, which comes from the Algonquian Indian language and means "long rocky place". The population was 847 at the 2010 census.
Inskip is a ghost town in Butte County, California. It lies at an elevation of 4,777 feet in the northern Sierra Nevada near Lassen National Forest. The main surviving building is the Inskip Hotel, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Pulga is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California. It is located along the west slope of the Feather River canyon. A variant name for the community is Big Bar.
Mayaro is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California. It lies on Camp Creek at an elevation of 1522 feet and is located at 39°49′27″N121°25′20″W. A post office operated at Mayaro from 1930 to 1956. Mayaro was the site of a popular lodge that opened in 1928 and closed in the early 1970s.
The Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California are a Native American people based in northeastern California, south of Lassen Peak. They historical have spoken the Konkow language, also known as Northeastern Maidu.
Enterprise Rancheria is the landbase for the Estom Yumeka Maidu Tribe, located in Butte County, near Oroville, California. The nearest outside communities are Berry Creek and Forbestown. As of the 2010 Census the population was 1. The Estom Yumeka Maidu Tribe itself has around 1000 citizens.
The Oroville–Thermalito Complex is a group of reservoirs, structures, and facilities located in and around the city of Oroville in Butte County, California. The complex serves not only as a regional water conveyance and storage system, but is the headwaters for, and therefore perhaps is the most vital part of, the California Department of Water Resources' State Water Project, as one of the largest publicly built and operated water and power development and conveyance systems.
Eskini is a former Maidu settlement in Butte County, California. It lay at an elevation of 157 feet. Its location is now within the limits of Durham.
Honcut Creek is a stream in central California in the United States. It is a tributary of the Feather River and flows from the Sierra Nevada south and west into the river] in the Sacramento Valley.
Michopdo is a former Maidu settlement in Butte County, California. It lay at an elevation of 187 feet.
Sunnyslope is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California, United States.
Yuman is a former Maidu settlement in Butte County, California. It lay at an elevation of 171 feet. Its location is currently within the city limits of Oroville.
Little Chico Creek is a perennial stream in Butte County, California. It descends the Sierra Nevada foothills from a spring off Headwaters Road in Forest Ranch, CA, flowing westward into the Parrot Grant which is just south of Ord Ferry Road and west of Seven Mile Lane where it just disappears.
The Maidu Museum & Historic Site is an interpretive center museum dedicated to public education about the Maidu peoples.
The Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California is a federally recognized tribe of Concow and Maidu people in Butte County. Concow, or Konkow, people are the northwestern or foothill branch of the Maidu people, who traditionally spoke the Concow language
The Maidu Regional Park is located in Roseville, California. This 152-acre park has a small museum and historic site. The grounds also consist of the Maidu Community Center, the Maidu Branch Library, and Veterans Memorial Rose Garden. Other features include a four-diamond softball complex, a five-field soccer complex, a batting cage, a skate park, a full basketball court, picnic areas and play equipment, and a bicycle and pedestrian path through the wooded area of the park where multiple artifacts from the Maidu Native American tribe have been found.
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