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3 unusual facts about Oroville


Barbara Salt

Barbara Salt was born in Oroville, California to Reginald Salt, an English banker and his wife Maud, who returned to England not long after her birth.

Bert Mooney Airport

On March 22, 2009, a Pilatus PC-12 flying in from Oroville, California crashed in Holy Cross Cemetery 500 feet from the airport, killing all 14 people on board.

Permanent System radar stations

Gap-filler annexes of Mather P-58 (P-58A at Modesto & P-58B at Oroville) were some of the Permanent System stations planned, but never built.


Cascade and Columbia River Railroad

The railroad line follows the Columbia River Valley north from Wenatchee to the Okanogan River Valley and north to Oroville, just north of where the Smilkameen River joins the Okanogan River.

Oroville City Elementary School District

Oroville City Elem Sch Dist is a public school district based in Butte County, California, United States.

Samuel P. Cox

After the war he returned to Gallatin, Missouri and briefly settled in Grass Valley, Nevada and Oroville, California (1854-1856) before returning to Daviess County in 1857 where he was briefly a deputy sheriff.


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