PST, close to Camp Creek Road near Pulga. On November 8, 2018, a wildfire named the "Camp Fire" was reported at 6:33 a.m. Satellite image showing the fire at 10:45 a.m. Gene Sylva, a former mayor of the nearby town of Oroville, has stated that the saloon story is false, and that the true etymology of the town's name can be traced to his great-great-grandfather, William Pierce Leonard, who named the town on a summer day in 1864, after a hot and dusty ride from the Sacramento Valley arriving at his sawmill while the staff were on break, Leonard "took a deep breath of the cool, clean air, and exclaimed, 'boys, this is paradise.'" According to Snopes, Sylva's explanation may be "pleasingly inventive historical fiction", and it is more likely that the town was named for it being a pleasant place to live. However, no documentation has been found to prove the establishment existed, nor an explanation of the spelling of the town's name on the map. Ī legend persists that the town was named because it was the home of the Pair o' Dice Saloon, an idea supported by a 1900 railroad map referring to the town as Paradice. For many years, the Butte County Railroad operated trains along the ridge, serving mines and sawmills.Īccording to GNIS, the community has been known in the past by four different names or spellings: Leonards Mill, Poverty Ridge, Pair-O-Dice, and Paradice. It closed for a time in 1911, but was re-established later that year, when the post office at Orloff was closed. The first post office was established at Paradise in 1877. In January 2019, the state of California reported 4,600 residents, and a door-to-door count in April 2019 found 2,034. After the Camp Fire, the population declined by more than 90%. On November 8, 2018, a major wildfire, the Camp Fire, destroyed most of Paradise and much of the adjacent communities of Magalia, Butte Creek Canyon, and Concow. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 4,764. Paradise is a town in Butte County, California, United States in the Sierra Nevada foothills above the northeastern Sacramento Valley.
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