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Butte County is a county located in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of
California, north of state capital Sacramento. The county seat is
Oroville. Butte County is the "Land of Natural Wealth and Beauty."
Butte County is watered by the Feather River and the Sacramento
River. Butte Creek and Big Chico Creek are additional perennial
streams, both tributary to the Sacramento. It is the site of Feather
Falls, the sixth largest waterfall in the United States. The county
is the home of California State University, Chico.
In 1860 till it's closure
during World War II in 1942, it was the deepest gold mine in North
America, 5,912 feet.
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