Butte Meadows, California

About Butte Meadows

Set in the northwestern part of California, Butte Meadows is a small unincorporated community.

Butte Meadows holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 2.14 square miles.

📰 Butte Meadows News Today

• Butte Meadows Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution IQAir · Jun 23
• Historic Colby Mountain Lookout reopens after public outcry, veteran spotter returns Action News Now · Jun 12
• ‘Chains required’: Snow blankets Butte County ridges | Photos - Chico Enterprise-Record Chico Enterprise-Record · Feb 17
• Battalion 2 Butte County · Mar 10
• Snow blankets Butte Meadows as bomb cyclone impacts Northstate KRCR · Nov 21

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

What Makes Butte Meadows Unique

• The only place in America named Butte Meadows — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in northwestern California, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 17 miles.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Butte Meadows

• Deer Creek Preserve · Nature reserve reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

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🗺️ Map of Butte Meadows

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