Paradise (Kalifornien)

Paradise is an incorporated town in Butte County, California. It is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills above the northeastern Sacramento Valley.The town is statistically classified within the Chico Metropolitan Area.GeographyThe town of Paradise is 10mi east of Chico and 85mi north of Sacramento. The population was 26,283 as of 2013, down from 26,408 at the 2000 census.It spreads out on a wide ridge between deep canyons formed by the west branch of the Feather River to the east and Butte Creek to the west. The Paradise area extends northward from Paradise to include the unincorporated town of Magalia, and such smaller communities as Stirling City, eleven miles north. Elevation of the town is 1778ft, according to the GNIS. The town is approximately eight miles east of the city of Chico, and ten miles north of the Oroville area.According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 18.3sqmi, over 99% of it land.