Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Oroville came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Oroville in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Oroville. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Oroville data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Oroville:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, a Railroad Station, an Express Office

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - California & Nevada
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2002
(Available from Amazon.com)

Shell Oil Road Map for California (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

Oroville is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

We found Oroville in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Oroville for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Oroville. See our Misc Page for Oroville for more information.

Railroad Mentions of Oroville:

Oroville was mentioned in the following schedules:

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (August 1903)

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (March 1908)

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929)

The following route mentioned Oroville as a scheduled stop:

The California Zephyr: From the timetable for the California Zephyr (train schedule from 1954). The defunct California Zephyr travelled between Chicago (IL) and San Francisco (CA)

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Oroville: www.cityoforoville.org/

The official website for Butte County: www.buttecounty.net/

The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/