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Butte County

county in California, United States
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Summary

Butte County is a charter county[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: California[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Capital: Oroville[5]
  • Shares border with: Tehama County[6], Sutter County[7], Yuba County[8], Colusa County[9], Glenn County[10], Plumas County[11]
  • Named after: Sutter Buttes[12]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: Oroville[13], Chico[14]
  • Commons category: Butte County, California[15]
  • Inception: 1850[16]
  • Coordinate location: 39.66, -121.6[17]
  • Authority: County of Butte[18]
  • Official website: https://www.buttecounty.net/[19]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Butte County, California[20]
  • Population: 220,000[21], 219,914[22], 219,913[23], 221,016[24], 222,090[25], 225,411[26], 226,466[27], 219,186[28], 211,632[29]
  • List of monuments: National Register of Historic Places listings in Butte County, California[30]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Butte County, California[31]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Butte County, California[32]
  • Number of households: 83,879[33]
  • Native label: County of Butte[34]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C107877[35]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Butte County, California[36]
  • Different from: Butte County[37], Butts County[38]
  • Area: 4344[39]
  • Water as percent of area: 2.27[40]
  • Category for maps or plans: Category:Maps of Butte County, California[41]
  • Located in the statistical territorial entity: Chico metropolitan area[42], Northern Sacramento Valley[43]

Why It Matters

Butte County is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]

Related Entities

California United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [44] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14687 → Data:US presidential elections by county/Butte County, Calif
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14687: Data:US presidential elections by county/Butte County, California.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States president"
  2. 9w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/46950|batch #46950]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 22w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Butte County, Butte County, Butts County
    Authority → County of Butte
    Inception → +1850-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Category for people born here → Category:Births in Butte County, California
    + 35 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/31546|batch #31546]]"
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