Hooker Oak
Hooker Oak was an extremely large valley oak tree in Chico, California. Amateur botanist and local socialite Annie Bidwell, whose husband had founded Chico, named the tree in 1887 after English botanist and Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Guythall, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chico Community Observatory and Chico Marketplace.
Chico Community Observatory
Observatory
Photo: Derek Curry, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Chico Community Observatory, also known as the Anita Ingrao Observatory, is a non-profit astronomical observatory owned and operated by Kiwanis Club of Greater Chico. Chico Community Observatory is situated 1 mile northeast of Hooker Oak.
Chico Marketplace
Shopping center
Chico Marketplace is an enclosed shopping mall in Chico, California, United States. Opened in 1988, it features JCPenney, and Dick's Sporting Goods as its anchor stores, with Burlington, HomeGoods, Petco, Boot Barn and Planet Fitness as junior anchors. Chico Marketplace is situated 2 miles south of Hooker Oak.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chapmantown and Chico.
Chapmantown
Hamlet
Chico is the most populous city in Butte County, California, United States. Located in the Sacramento Valley region of Northern California, the city had a population of 101,475 in the 2020 census, an increase from 86,187 in the 2010 census. Chapmantown is situated 3 miles south of Hooker Oak.
Chico
Chico is in Butte County in California. Chico is the cultural and economic center of the northern Sacramento Valley, as well as the largest city in California north of Sacramento.
Barber
Hamlet
The Barber Neighborhood is a working class residential neighborhood in Chico, California, generally south of Little Chico Creek and west of Park avenue. Barber is situated 3½ miles southwest of Hooker Oak.
Hooker Oak
- Type: geographical feature
- Description: Historical valley oak of exceptional size
- Location: Butte County, Shasta Cascades, California, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
“Hooker Oak” goes by many names.
- German: “Hooker-Eiche”
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