Concow (Maidu: Koyoom Kʼawi, meaning “Meadow”) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in the Sierra Nevada foothills covering eastern Butte County, California. Due to a fall in employment and repeated wildfires, over the in imitation of hundred years the population declined from several thousand to several dozen. On November 8, 2018, a wildfire, the Camp Fire, destroyed most of Concow, as capably as the neighboring municipality of Paradise.

Concow is named after the Native American tribe that is indigenous to the area, the Concow Maidu. The indigenous inhabitants ate salmon from the Feather River, acorns and pine nuts, venison, nō-kōm-hē-i’-nē, and new sources of food which abounded in the California foothills.

“In the beginning Wahno-no-pem, the Great Spirit, made whatever things. Before he came, everything on the earth and in the skies was hidden in darkness and in gloom, but where he appeared he was the light. From his essence, out of his breath, he made the sun, the moon, and the countless stars, and pinned them in the blue vault of the heavens.”

There is no indication that there was outside governance of the Concow region or the tribal peoples that inhabited the region during the 1697–1821 Spanish colonization or the 1821–1846 Mexican era, characterized by the spread of Californio slave ranchos. The Concow region is 20 miles (30 km) north of the city of Oroville (an Anglo-Hispanic combined meaning ‘gold-town’) and practically the thesame distance east of the town of Chico; named for Rancho Arroyo Chico—meaning ‘little creek ranch.’ Rancho Arroyo Chico was usual through a land-grant from the Mexican authorities in 1844, two years in the past California was invaded by United States forces, an indication that there was some Mexican governance close the Concow region, but no indication of governance of the region.