1912Government
The first post office at Chowchilla opened in 1912 and the city incorporated eleven years later, in 1923.
1976Education
=== 1976 bus kidnapping ===
Chowchilla made national news on July 15, 1976, when 26 children and their school bus driver were kidnapped and held in a buried moving van at a qua...
2005History
In 2005, Chowchilla had 20 consecutive cloudy, rainy days.
2023History
In 2023, the US Census Bureau estimated that the median household income was $63,308, and the per capita income was $21,944.