Editing Chowchilla, California (section)

==History==
The word "Chowchilla" is an anglicized spelling of ''chaushila'', the name of an indigenous [[Yokuts]] people who, historically, inhabited the areas in and around Madera County.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cityofchowchilla.org/214/Chowchilla-History#:~:text=Chowchilla%20Tribe&text=At%20least%20we%20know%20they,of%20the%20San%20Joaquin%20Valley. |accessdate=April 29, 2023 |title=Chowchilla History |website=City of Chowchilla, California}}</ref>

The first post office at Chowchilla opened in 1912<ref name=CGN /> and the city [[municipal corporation|incorporated]] eleven years later, in 1923.<ref name=CGN />

=== 1976 bus kidnapping ===<!-- Other articles link here. -->
{{Main|1976 Chowchilla kidnapping}}

Chowchilla made national news on July 15, 1976, when 26 children and their school bus driver were kidnapped and held in a buried [[Moving company|moving van]] at a quarry in [[Livermore, California]]. The driver and some of the children were able to escape and notify the quarry guard. All the victims returned unharmed. The quarry owner's son and two friends were convicted and sentenced to life in prison.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/outlaws/chowchilla_kidnap/index.html |title=The Chowchilla Kidnapping |first=Douglas |last=MacGowan |website=crimelibrary |access-date=March 16, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403043518/http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/outlaws/chowchilla_kidnap/index.html |archive-date=April 3, 2014 }}</ref>