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On November 15, 2022, the Chico City Council passed a motion to rename Chico Municipal Airport to Chico Regional Airport. [9] “The purpose of renaming the airport is to represent the entire area it serves and will serve when air service returns,” said Erik Gustafson, Director of Public Works Operations and Maintenance.
Butte Regional Transit is a public transit system which provides bus service in the communities of Biggs, Chico, Gridley, Magalia, Oroville, Palermo, Paradise [1] and across Butte County, California. In 2005, the consolidation of CATS in Chico, OATS in Oroville and BCT in Butte County resulted in the formation of this transit agency.
“We have a lot of different priorities we need to balance,” said Chico fire chief Standridge, noting that fires are especially common in Bidwell Park, the city’s beloved 3,500 recreation area.
Chico (/ ˈ tʃ iː k oʊ / CHEE-koh; Spanish for "little") [9] [10] is the most populous city in Butte County, California, United States.Located in the Sacramento Valley region of Northern California, the city had a population of 101,475 in the 2020 census, an increase from 86,187 in the 2010 census.
A 42-year-old Chico man was arrested on suspicion of arson after officials say he pushed a burning car down an embankment in the city's Bidwell Park. (Butte County district attorney)
The park was established July 10, 1905, through the donation by Annie Bidwell, widow of Chico's founder, John Bidwell, of approximately 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of land to the City of Chico. Since that time, the city has purchased additional land, such as Cedar Grove in 1922, and 1,200 acres (490 ha) of land south of Big Chico Creek in ...
Like most states, California is divided into counties, of which there are 58 (including San Francisco) [note 1] covering the entire state. Most urbanized areas are incorporated as cities, [note 2] though not all of California is within the boundaries of a city. School districts, which are independent of cities and counties, handle public education.
The city of Chico was founded in 1860 by General John Bidwell, a member of one of the first wagon trains to reach California in 1841. The city became incorporated January 8, 1872. Historian W.H. "Old Hutch" Hutchinson identified five events as the most seminal in Chico history.