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Chico California News
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Chico The City of Chico was founded in 1860 by General John
Bidwell, and incorporated in 1872 with a population of approximately 1,000 persons in an
area of 6.6 square miles. The City of Chico has grown to over a 29
square mile Charter city of 73,558 with an urbanized, unincorporated area immediately
adjacent to it with an additional population of 28,562, making the total
population of the Chico urban area 102,120. Chico is located in the Northern
Sacramento Valley of California approximately ninety miles north of Sacramento, in
Butte County, east of Interstate 5.
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