Concow ( formerly , Con Cow ) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place ( CDP ) that was until 2018 primarily residential and small scale cultivation in the Sierra Nevada foothills covering eastern Butte County , California , United States . Due to a decline in employment and repeated wildfires , over the past hundred years the population declined from several thousand to several dozen people . On November 8 , 2018 , a wildfire , the Camp Fire , cleared most of Concow and destroyed the adjacent municipality Paradise . The CDP is named after the Native American tribe that is indigenous to the area , the Concow Maidu . The original inhabitants ate salmon from the Feather River , acorns and pine nuts , venison , nō-kōm-hē-i ' - nē , and other sources of food which abounded in the California foothills
Camp Fire
Camp Fire (2018)
Concow, California