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Berry Creek
Berry Creek
	— Unincorporated community —
	; Berry Creek Location in California
	Coordinates: 39°38′43″N 121°24′12″W / 39.64528°N 121.40333°W
Country	United States
State	California
County	Butte County
Elevation	1,995 ft (608 m)

For the place formerly called Berry Creek, see Virginia Mills, California.

Coordinates: 39°38′43″N 121°24′12″W / 39.64528°N 121.40333°W / 39.64528; -121.40333

Berry Creek (formerly, Berry Valley)^[2] is an unincorporated community about 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Oroville, California in hilly terrain at 1,995 feet (608 m) above mean sea level. The community is located along Oroville-Quincy Highway on the shore of Madrone Lake. The US Geological Survey shows coordinates of 39°38′43″N 121°24′12″W / 39.64528°N 121.40333°W / 39.64528; -121.40333 for the town. The community is home to Berry Creek Elementary School (K-8). Berry Creek is inside Area code 530 and wired phone numbers follow the format (530) 589-xxxx. The community's ZIP code is 95916, and is shared with the community of Brush Creek, (which is about four miles or six kilometers east on Oroville-Quincy Highway).

There is a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection fire station at an area called Harts Mill just south of the community. This is a historic name for a community once located at 39°37′25″N 121°26′08″W / 39.62361°N 121.43556°W / 39.62361; -121.43556. Harts Mill was probably a mining community named for a stamp mill. The USGS lists a variant name of Virginia Mill for the area.

[edit] History

Berry Creek's first post office was established in 1875 being transferred from Oak Arbor; it changed locations several times before being closed in 1912. It was re-established in 1913, closed again in 1926, and re-opened in 1927.^[2]

[edit] Berry Creek Rancheria

The Tyme Maidu community of the Maidu nation has a similar-sounding community called Berry Creek Rancheria about 4.25 straight-line miles southeast on a bearing of 109 degrees off true North. The community is located along Bean Creek Road. The latitude and longitude for the Rancheria are 39°37′33″N 121°19′37″W / 39.62583°N 121.32694°W / 39.62583; -121.32694 on the Forbestown, California, 1994, 7.5-minute quadrangle. The tribal government gets mail at an Oroville location.

[edit] References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographical Names Information System: Berry Creek, California
^ ^a ^b Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Quill Driver Books. p. 193. ISBN 9781884995149.

U.S. Geological Survey Geographical Names Information System: Berry Creek, California
US Department of Education, National Center for Educational Statistics.
US Geological Survey, National Geographic Names Database.
US Department of Commerce, miscellaneous records derived from public data sets used to determine geographic attributes like area code and ZIP code.
Map: Berry Creek, California, 7.5 minute quadrangle, 1994, US Geological Survey.
US Census Bureau, 2000 census statistical area records, (mostly used for data matching against other sources).
web site of US Senator Barabara Boxer

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[0] U.S. Geological Survey Geographical Names Information System: Berry Creek, California

[CGN-1] Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Quill Driver Books. p. 193. ISBN 9781884995149.

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