Chowchilla, California
Madera County · Population 19,039 · Card no. 10069
A Central Valley farm city best known for a 1976 school bus kidnapping that ended with the children digging themselves out.
- Twenty-six children and their driver were buried alive in a quarry and escaped after 16 hours.
- Two state prisons for women are here.
- The name comes from a Yokuts people of the area.
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