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CHINESE 

1893-1901

This information was taken from an index of a register of deaths ledger on file at Special Collections, Meriam Library, California State University, Chico.  Some of the names were hard to read, they were listed here as they appeared to me.  Place of death is listed within the parentheses.  The “suburbs of Oroville” could be the Oroville Chinatown or other parts of the towns or populated places around the Feather River drainage. By the time of the 1900 census the area enumeration districts and Chinese population had expanded beyond the 1860 census boundaries. The 1910 census was taken after the flooding 

Feather River (March 1907) destroyed the area around Broderick and Safford Street.

Download the word doc – 9th CENSUS 1870 – Oroville Chinese

9^th CENSUS 1870

BUTTE COUNTY

OPHIR TOWNSHIP, OROVILLE

This information was extracted from a microfilm copy of the 1870 9^th census located at the Meriam Library, California State University, Chico.  Some of the names and occupations in this listing were difficult to interpret. A question mark has been placed where the information is unclear.

The National Archives Records Administration reference service reported to us that no census maps were created for California districts for the 9^th census.  As a result, we are still looking for other map resources to explain the enumerator’s route and the geographic location of the numbered dwellings mentioned in this census.

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