Cohasset (formerly, Keefers Ridge and North Point) is a census-designated place in Butte County, California, United States, approximately 17.7 miles (28.5 km) NNE of Chico, California. Its main street is named Cohasset Road, which comes from the Algonquian Indian language and means “long rocky place”. The population was 847 at the 2010 census.

The town is a mountain community at 2,828 feet (862 m) above objective sea level. It sits upon Cohasset Ridge: an eleven-mile (18 km) ridge running around southwest-to-northeast. The U.S. Geological Survey feature ID is 1655909 and NAD27 coordinates for the community are 39°55′32″N 121°43′48″W / 39.92556°N 121.73000°W / 39.92556; -121.73000. The ZIP Code for the community is 95973, which is shared subsequent to about seven other user-friendly towns, and the Place code 530.

The primary landing field is the Chico Municipal Airport.

In the mid-19th century the local lumber and crop growing operations began, prior to which the Maidu inhabited the Place for many generations. By the before 20th century, Cohasset was famous for its tall quality apples. Today, they are better known for peaceful country living, the Annual Cohasset Bazaar, and the beauty of the Cohasset Ridge. A herald office operated at Cohasset from 1888 to 1920. The prematurely lumbermen designated the ridge after the pineries. A moot district was formed July 16, 1878 to present a place of learning for the children of the growing number of entrepreneur families and was definite the pronounce of North Point District. The entire ridge came to be known by the read out of North Point. In 1887 the ridge residents requested the United States Government to assert a proclaim office there, to be named North Point. The Post Office Department concurred in the obsession of a postal facility but balked at the requested name. There were already too many stations in the country later than either North or Point in their names correspondingly it was requested that choice name be selected. For a publicize selecting committee two youngster ladies of the ridge, Miss Marie Wilson and Miss Electa Welch (the literary teacher) were appointed and they chose the make known Cohasset, meaning “City of Pines” in the Algonquin Indian language. There was a precedent for this in Cohasset, Massachusetts, a lovely resort town of pines and rocks located upon the seacoast southeast of Boston. The extra name was pleasing and the first Cohasset, California name office was conventional February 20, 1888