Feather River

The Feather River is the principal tributary of the , in the of . The river's main stem is about 73 miles long.
Wikipedia
Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Type: Stream
  • Description: the principal tributary of the Sacramento River in California, United States
  • Also known as: “Río de las plumas”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Oroville State Theatre and Oroville Chinese Temple.

Theater building
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is a theater building.

Museum
Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a Chinese folk religious temple built in 1863 in . The temple is now owned by the City of Oroville and open to the public as a museum, and it also continues to be used occasionally for worship.

Hospital
provides health coverage to the City of Oroville. It is the main for the city of . The building is the City of Oroville in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oroville and Oregon City.

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is a small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern . With a population in the greater urban area of 40,000, it is the seat of .

Hamlet
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, formerly Bloomingdale and Hengy, is a ghost town located between and in , United States. One of the first mining camps in the county, it was established in the autumn of 1848 by a party of , who came to over the Applegate and Lassen trails. is situated 5 miles north of Feather River.

Village
Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a census-designated place in , United States. The population was 5,555 at the 2020 census, up from 5,382 at the 2010 census. is situated 6 miles south of Feather River.

Feather River

Latitude
39.51773° or 39° 31′ 4″ north
Longitude
-121.5501° or 121° 33′ 0″ west
Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)
Open location code
84FWGC9X+3X
Geo­Names ID
9958518
Wiki­data ID
Q1399312
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Western Panjabi—“Feather River” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ֆեթեր”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Feather”
  • Catalan: “riu Feather”
  • Catalan: “Riu Feather”
  • Cebuano: “Feather River”
  • Chinese: “羽毛河”
  • Chinese: “費瑟河”
  • Chinese: “费瑟河”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر فياثير”
  • Esperanto: “Plumrivero”
  • Estonian: “Feather”
  • Estonian: “Featheri jõgi”
  • Finnish: “Featherjoki”
  • French: “Feather River”
  • French: “Feather”
  • German: “Feather River”
  • Hebrew: “נהר פד’ר”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Feather”
  • Irish: “Abhainn Feather”
  • Italian: “Feather (California)”
  • Italian: “Feather”
  • Japanese: “フェザー川”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Feather River”
  • Persian: “رود فیدر”
  • Polish: “Feather River”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Feather”
  • Russian: “Фетер”
  • Slovenian: “Feather River”
  • Slovenian: “Feather”
  • Slovenian: “Río de las plumas”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فیدر چایی”
  • Spanish: “Rio de las Plumas”
  • Spanish: “Río de las Plumas”
  • Venetian: “Feather”
  • Vietnamese: “sông Feather”
  • Vietnamese: “sông Plumas”
  • Welsh: “Afon Feather”
  • Western Panjabi: “دریائے فیدر”

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