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Like I said, I'm not much of an artist, I just used screenshots from Google Earth and edited the images on Microsoft Word any images here are just screenshots of the map and street view. The NCR flag was something I picked up from a Fallout Wiki and copy/pasted.

I just like to world build as a hobby and this has been pretty casual. I am a local of the area and felt that Butte County being missing from the canon map is a bit of a bummer. So I figured I'd have some fun with it. Let me know your thoughts, I am open to ideas. Again I'm just doing this for fun.

The following is a general summary:

The idea is that the Butte County area along Highway 70 is still in the frontier phases of the NCR due to I-5 being the "spine" of the NCR trade lines. This made highways 70 & 99 into less controlled routes and allowed smugglers and outlaws to travel with lesser NCR moderation. The area of Butte County has become a "wild west" so to speak with the vast majority of the Chico Ruins being effectively lawless due to the sheer amount of places gangs and criminals can hide in. The major towns in this area are Harrison, an old world park made into an NCR agriculture town right next to a medical clinic and Park Ranger office made into the NCR base Fort Harrison.

The village of Little Bear is situated along the River Bend Park and aren't too friendly to most outsiders. They mostly use the dried river to make trade with Greenbridge, an independent village at the Oroville Fish Hatchery and Salmon run. The nearby bridge that the village is named after is an open air market. The Roundabout has a watchtower built at the center to act as a guard post along the main route that deviates from the Highway 70 thanks to a collapsed bridge. The route leaves highway 70 and follows Montgomery Street to Greenbridge. From there, they can follow the Table Mountain Blvd back to the highway and make their way to Chico.

Chico has two major towns, the first is Atrium. This was originally the Chico Mall and has been made into an indoor city. The second sits at the main body of the Chico State University. Currently I don't have a name picked out for it so I've just been calling it the Campus for the time being. These two towns are the closest thing to a "safe zone" under NCR control. The rest of the ruins (at this time) are a lawless hellscape of ruins, beasts, chem fiends, and monsters. There is a fortress built into the Silver Dollar Fair Grounds, the people here are a ruthless bunch. They are the Scorned, a major gang of criminals and outcasts who have been exiled from the two towns. The fortress they call home is called Exile and the Scorned hace control over a portion of Chico called Stirling with Exile as their veritable Tortuga.

I live in the Butte County area and that puts me, kind of, near the heartlands of the New California Republic in the Fallout setting. So I have been playing with an idea of what the Butte County area might be like in the Fallout setting. Just sharing some ideas and would like people's input or suggestions.

Right now I am working on the Oroville area and I have come up with a few things:

When you first enter from the south, you pass by the industrial zone, it's a hive of Ghoul and Raider activity. Then you find yourself at the Oro Dam freeway exit. Here, you come upon an outlaw run toll where the Red Rocket Outlaws (sometimes called the Red Rocket Raider, or just the Rockets) offer trade, protective services and warns smugglers of the NCR check station just down the road. If you are trying to avoid NCR checkpoints, you can try your luck traveling up Oro Dam into the Thermalito Frontier and join the Highway 99 route.

The Thermalito Frontier is a wasteland of old ruins, raider gangs, and monstrous beasts. It's a gamble to explore the area, a gamble that few survive.

In Oroville, if you attempt to cross the dried up river, you'll find the highway 70 bridge has collapsed. Just off of this bridge at the River end park is the village of Little Bear. While some people to stop here, others turn back and stay at the village of Harrison.

The Harrison Stadium and nearby park is an NCR controlled agriculture village called Harrison. Just across the street is the Feather River Tribal Health and Feather River Park Rangers HQ, so I figure I'd make that the NCR base and named it Fort Harrison. The Fort is divide into three sections, the Ranger HQ, the NCR main base and commons, and the Training area where the Feather River Tribal Health PT and gym are located.

Next is Greenbridge, I am admittedly a little proud of this one. The dual bridges that cross the river has become a choke point for travelers, traders, and NCR troops. The bridge itself has become an open air market with huts, shacks, and storefronts lining the bridge. The nearby Fish Hatchery and Salmon run has become something of a village and Brahmin ranch. The roundabout just off the bridge has a watchtower built at the center. The roads gated off and the are itself is walled off, to add a level of protection.

Deeper into the ruins of downtown Oroville you'll come upon the Oroville Inn, this hotel has been converted, in real life, into the dorms for the Lineman college. I like to think that, in Fallout, a collective of people sought to use this place to make a settlement and came upon the remains of notes and tools of the students of the Northwest Lineman College. Here they sort of became a group similar to the Followers of the Apocalypse and seek to provide electrical power to the wasteland. They took on the name of the Linemen and hope to one day locate the forgotten campus and regain the lost knowledge to restore the grid. However they haven't a clue that it is in the Thermalito Frontier.

There is also the matter of the Oroville Dam, I don't really want to go the same route as the Hoover Dam but at the same time I almost feel as though I have little choice with that.

Following the road from Greenbridge, down Washington Ave and back to Oro Dam Blvd, you'll be greeted with signs for Gold Country. This old casino has been made into a fortress palace for a brutal warlord and head of a criminal family, (name in progress) who seeks to control the Butte Frontier and kick the NCR out. Think the birth of a second New Reno.

On the flip side, the Feather Falls Casino has become a village of outcasts and ghouls, lead by a Supermutant, all of whom are actively at war with Gold Country. Not for any altruistic reasons, they too seek control of the area but their focus is more with the Wyandotte region. With this, I am sort of playing on the existing rivalry, in real life, between the two local casinos.

Back at Greenbridge, and following Table Mountain Blvd and turning onto Nelson Ave will allow you to rejoin the Highway 70 route to Chico. The overpasses along the highway have been made into NCR checkpoints to add a level of security along the route, although it's not exactly perfect, the route is considered moderately safe as far as that counts in the world of Fallout.

As you travel, you'll encounter an intersection that splits between Oroville, Chico and Concow. This area became a kind of rest stop village called Pass Thru.

The only area I developed so far for Chico is the mall being converted into a kind of city called the Atrium.

I attached some google earth images, slightly edited to an aged look and drew some borders. Again I would love some constructive feedback and ideas for surrounding areas.