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Chowchilla is a city in Madera County, California, United States. [3] The city's population was 19,039 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] Chowchilla is located 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Madera , [ 5 ] at an elevation of 240 feet (73 m).
Madera County has three correctional facilities. The first is the Madera County Jail, managed by the elected Sheriff. The second, Valley State Prison, is a state-run prison located in Chowchilla. [61] The third, the Central California Women's Facility, is also in Chowchilla, across from Valley State Prison. Inmates are counted in the county's ...
State Route 233 (SR 233) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California.It serves as an alternate route between State Route 152 and State Route 99 in Madera County, running along Robertson Boulevard through the center of Chowchilla instead of bypassing the city.
California: District: Mariposa County: ... Topo map: USGS Wawona: The Chowchilla Mountains are a mountain range in Mariposa County, California. [1]
Location of Chowchilla in Madera County, and Madera County in California. CCWF covers 640 acres (260 ha). As of Fiscal Year 2006/2007, CCWF had a total of 1,205 staff and an annual operating budget of US$138 million.
In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children – ages 5 to 14 – and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California. As part of a ransom plot, they drove the hostages into a rock quarry ...
The Chowchilla River begins in name at the point where the West and East forks converge and flows southwest to Eastman Lake. The lake, which holds 150,000 acre⋅ft (190,000 dam 3 ) of water from the Chowchilla, was created in 1975 by the construction of Buchanan Dam , an earth and rockfill structure which is 205 by 1,800 ft (62 by 549 m).
In July, after 20 years in prison for attempted murder and a gun enhancement, Coleman, 47, became one of three dozen prisoners at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla to ...