California State Route 99 runs through Gridley and Interstate 5 and California State Route 70 both pass nearby. Landmarks include Hazel Hotel. Gridley is the birthplace of Isaac Austin, basketball player-coach.
Gridley, California gifts and souvenirs: 23 designs made from Gridley's own map, landmarks and history, from $10 to $95. Printed to order and shipped free in the USA.
| Popular | Price |
|---|---|
| Gridley Hometown Ornament | $23 |
| Gridley Vintage Travel Poster | from $40 |
| Gridley Varsity Crewneck | from $57 |
| Gridley Est. Tee | from $33 |
| Gridley Town Line Mug | from $26 |
| Gridley Market Tote | $37 |
Ceramic keepsake, gold ribbon, in 4 styles
Its landmark photo in a classic travel-poster layout
A local landmark photo as a gallery print
The town's story in dates, from its own records, for home or classroom
Map of local landmarks, washable fabric
Heavy-blend fleece, street map printed on the back
Red heavy-blend crewneck, knit-stitch town print
Soft Bella+Canvas jersey
Kids' Bella+Canvas jersey, youth sizes
Bella+Canvas toddler jersey
Bella+Canvas baby bodysuit
Glossy ceramic, dishwasher safe
Weatherproof, for the front walk
24″×16″, printed coir-look fibers, rubber back
12″×12″ printed wood, ready to hang
Soft-touch, zip cover
A local landmark photo with the town name, 18″×18″
Sturdy all-over-print tote
Glossy top, cork back
Soft fleece, 50″×60″
20 oz, double-wall stainless
6″×4″ postcard, glossy front
The town's earliest Sanborn fire-insurance map, drawn building by building and hand-coloured, from the Library of Congress
Population 2010: 6,584 → 2020: 7,421
From Wikidata (CC0).
Tribal groups, including the Maidu people, were settled in the region when they were first encountered by Spanish and Mexican scouting expeditions in the early 18th century. In the 1850s George W. Gridley, a wool grower and grain farmer who at the time was one of the largest landowners in Butte County, settled a 960-acre (390 ha) home ranch west of the town site that was to be named after him. Gridley was established in 1870 when the Oregon and California Railroad was constructed north from Marysville. The railroad reached Chico on July 2, 1870. In the summer of 1891, a series of major fires "nearly swept away" much of Gridley, and the business district was nearly destroyed again by an additional fire in July 1905.
In response to a "The Place Where Crops Never Fail" advertising campaign 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 following year the Gridley Branch of the church was organized and more Latter-day Saints continued coming to Gridley from Idaho, Nevada, Utah and other states, effectively turning this small farming community into a Mormon enclave. By the end 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 with a seating capacity of 1,000—the largest LDS meetinghouse west of Salt Lake City at that time.
Following a fire in November 2018 in Paradise, California, 400 temporary modular housing units called the "Gridley Camp Fire Community" were erected at a city-owned industrial park in Gridley.
In 2020, Gridley was the place where former NASA engineer and YouTube star Mark Rober achieved a world record of the World's Largest Elephant's Toothpaste Explosion with a height of 60 feet (18 m), before subsequently breaking the record again with a height of 250 feet (76 m) in 2021.
Adapted (trimmed) from the Wikipedia article Gridley, California, revision 1378799253 by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
We share a part of every Gridley sale with local partners, and we'd love to print from your collection. Old photographs, maps and postcards make the best keepsakes.
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2 free coloring pages of Gridley, each traced from a photo of a local landmark. Print them at home, at school or for story hour.
Gridley's population was 7,421 in the 2020 U.S. Census, up from 6,584 in 2010.
Hazel Hotel
A view of Gridley