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Encyclopedia > Feather Falls, California

Feather Falls is a rural Butte County community north and east of Lake Oroville. Latitude and longitude for the town are listed as 39°35′36″N, 121°15′19″W (NAD27). It is home to Feather Falls Elementary School, a K-8 facility. Butte County is a county located in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California, north of state capital Sacramento. ...


There are large forested areas with not many towns on maps of the area. This part of the county is partly inside of Plumas National Forest. Three other small communities are about five miles distant in different directions. Camp Eighteen lies 4.9 miles distant at 61 degrees off true North, straight-line distance. This is roughly two o'clock if you think of the compass rose as a clock face. Clipper Mills is about 6.5 miles at 128 degrees off true North. This is roughly four o'clock if you think of the compass rose as a clock face. Forbestown is roughly 5.3 miles at 188 degrees off true North. This is roughly six o'clock if you think of the compass rose as a clock face. Plumas National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in northern California. ... The community of Camp Eighteen lies inside Butte County and about 1. ...


The US Geological Survey defines it as a populated place with a feature ID of 1656010. The community is 2,980 feet above mean sea level. The area is inside Area code 530. The community's ZIP code is 95940, which is shared with part of Oroville. The 530 area code covers Chico, Redding, Marysville, Red Bluff, Oroville, Placerville, and Truckee, California. ...


In history, the community was called Mooretown and Moresville according to the US Geological Survey.


Other nearby communities to the north and east along Lumpkin Road are named Lumpkin and Rogersville.


Sources

  • US Geological Survey, National Geographic Names Database
  • Map: Forbestown, California, 7.5 minute quadrangle, 1994, US Geological Survey.
  • Map: Clipper Mills, California, 7.5 minute quadrangle, 1994, US Geological Survey.


 

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