<P> Paradise is an incorporated town in Butte County, California . It is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills above the northeastern Sacramento Valley . </P> <P> The town is statistically classified within the Chico Metropolitan Area . </P> <P> The town of Paradise is 10 miles (16 km) east of Chico and 85 miles (137 km) north of Sacramento . The population was 26,283 as of 2013, down from 26,408 at the 2000 census . </P> <P> 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 1,778 feet (542 m), according to the GNIS . The town is approximately eight miles east of the city of Chico, and ten miles north of the Oroville area . </P>

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