Editing Butte County, California (section)

==History==
Butte County is named for the visually striking +{{convert|2000|ft|m|adj=on}} [[Sutter Buttes]] in neighboring [[Sutter County, California|Sutter County]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gannett |first1=Henry |title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States |date=1905 |publisher=[[United States Geological Survey]] |page=62|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0258/report.pdf |access-date=December 29, 2019}}</ref> Butte County was incorporated as one of California's 27 original counties on February 18, 1850. The county went across the present limits of the [[Tehama County, California|Tehama]], [[Plumas County, California|Plumas]], [[Colusa County, California|Colusa]], and [[Sutter County, California|Sutter]] Counties.<ref>George C. Mansfield, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.29799540;view=1up;seq=28 ''History of Butte County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present''], Hathitrust.org, 1918</ref>

Between November 8 and 25, 2018, a major wildfire, the [[Camp Fire (2018)|Camp Fire]], destroyed most of the town of [[Paradise, California|Paradise]], the adjacent community of [[Concow, California|Concow]], and a large area of rural, hilly country east of Chico. More than 80 people were killed, 50,000 were displaced, over 150,000 acres were burned, and nearly 20,000 buildings were destroyed.<ref>{{cite news |title=Death toll jumps to 23 as 'challenging' Camp Fire pushes toward Lake Oroville |url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article221471995.html |newspaper=[[The Sacramento Bee]] |date=November 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111053416/https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article221471995.html |archive-date=November 11, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=California wildfires: Death toll rises to 25 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46168107 |website=[[BBC]] |access-date=November 18, 2018 |date=November 11, 2018}}</ref> The Camp Fire was California's most destructive and deadliest fire.<ref>{{cite magazine |author1=Gina Martinez |title=The California Fire That Killed 48 People Is the Deadliest U.S. Wildfire in a Century |url=https://time.com/5453710/california-camp-fire-deadliest-wildfires-us-history/ |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=November 18, 2018 |date=November 14, 2018}}</ref>