English: Seal of Chico, California. "The Chico City Clerk reported that the city seal is attached to the relevant section of the Chico Municipal Statutes at Large and dates from the 1890s, when Chico was first incorporated as a city. The seal features General John C. Bidwell, one of the first settlers and developers of the area around Chico. She also informed me that the seal does not exist in a colored form, but simply as a wafer, steel wire on a steel frame. It is used to impress blank mirrors of itself on either blank paper or on gold adhesive, and in fact she was kind enough to include a blind stamping of the seal on gold. Ron Lahav, 22 September 2004"