Gridley is a city in Butte County, California, United States, 29 miles (47 kilometers) south of Chico, California and 56 miles (90 kilometers) north of Sacramento, California. The 2019 State of California population estimate was 7,224. California State Route 99 runs through Gridley and Interstate 5 and California State Route 70 are both nearby. The highway CA 99 goes through Gridley and the current population is 9,082 [found in a recent census].

Butte County was historically a bountiful area covered in imitation of oak trees, fields of manzanita brush, and marshes and lakes in the rainy season. The valley floor abounded like wild game, geese and ducks overhead, deer, antelope, tule elk, the coyote, and many smaller varieties of animal life. Fish swarmed in the rivers and creeks. Several tribal groups, including the Maidu people, were arranged in the region like they were first encountered by Spanish and Mexican scouting expeditions in the at the forefront 18th century. In the 1850s George W. Gridley, a wool grower and grain farmer who at the grow old was one of the largest landowners in Butte County, settled a 960-acre house ranch west of the town site that was to be named after him. Gridley was usual in 1870 like the Oregon and California Railroad was build up north from Marysville. The railroad reached Chico on July 2, 1870.

In salutation to a “The area Where Crops Never Fail” advertising move around by the California Irrigated Land Company, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began emigrating from the Rexburg, Idaho area to Gridley in November 1906. By February of the taking into consideration year the Gridley Branch of the church was organized and more Latter-day Saints continued coming to Gridley from Idaho, Nevada, Utah and additional states, effectively turning this small farming community into a Mormon enclave. By the subside of 1908 there were some 500 LDS settlers in the Gridley area and their first chapel was constructed on the west corner of Sycamore and Vermont Streets in 1912 bearing in mind a seating facility of 1,000—the largest LDS meetinghouse west of Salt Lake City at that time.

Following a flare in November 2018 in Paradise, California, 400 the theater modular housing units called the “Gridley Camp Fire Community” were erected at a city-owned industrial park in Gridley.