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Oroville, California

Butte County · Population 20,042 · Card no. 10281

The Butte County seat below the tallest dam in the United States, and a Gold Rush town before that.

Oroville Dam stands 770 feet, and its spillway failure in 2017 forced 188,000 people to evacuate.
The Chinese Temple, from 1863, served a large mining-era community.
The name means gold town.

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