Concow, California

Concow, California
Unincorporated community
Location in Butte County and the state of California
Concow, California Location in the United States
Coordinates: 39°44′14″N 121°30′52″W / 39.73722°N 121.51444°W / 39.73722; -121.51444
Country	United States
State	California
County	Butte
Government
• U. S. rep.	Doug LaMalfa (R)[1]
• State senator	Marie Alvarado-Gil (R)[2]
• Assemblymember	Megan Dahle (R)[3]
• County supervisor	Bill Connelly
Area [4]
• Total	27.78 sq mi (71.95 km2)
• Land	27.41 sq mi (70.98 km2)
• Water	0.37 sq mi (0.97 km2)  1.35%
Elevation [5]	2,005 ft (611 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	402
• Density	14.67/sq mi (5.66/km2)
Time zone	UTC−08:00 (Pacific)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−07:00 (PDT)
ZIP Code	95965
Area code	530
FIPS code	06-16035
GNIS feature IDs	1867007, 2407652
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Concow, California; U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Concow, California

Concow (Maidu: Koyoom Kʼawi, meaning "Meadow")^[6] is an unincorporated community and census-designated place^[7] (CDP) in the Sierra Nevada foothills covering eastern Butte County, California. Due to a decline in employment and repeated wildfires, over the past hundred years the population declined from several thousand to several dozen. On November 8, 2018, a wildfire, the Camp Fire, destroyed most of Concow, as well as the adjacent municipality of Paradise.

Concow is named after the Native American tribe that is indigenous to the area, the Concow Maidu. The original inhabitants ate salmon from the Feather River, acorns and pine nuts, venison, nō-kōm-hē-i'-nē, and other sources of food which abounded in the California foothills.