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What happened to Butte Community Bank?
Butte Community Bank in Chico, CA failed, and Rabobank, National Association of Roseville, CA took it over on Aug 20, 2010. After 1 more change of hands, what was Butte Community Bank is today part of Mechanics Bank (Walnut Creek, CA).
The chain, step by step
From the day it opened to the bank at the end of the chain today. Each step is one entry in the FDIC's record.
- 1990Butte Community Bank opens in Chico, CA
- Aug 20, 2010FAILEDButte Community Bank failed, and Rabobank, National Association of Roseville, CA took it over.FDIC certificate 33219 ends; its business continues under certificate 23364.
- Aug 31, 2019MERGEDRabobank, National Association of Roseville, CA merged into Mechanics Bank of Walnut Creek, CA.FDIC certificate 23364 ends; its business continues under certificate 1768.
- TodayOPEN
Mechanics BankMain office Walnut Creek, CA · FDIC certificate 1768 · 167 offices in 4 states on June 30, 2026Every Mechanics Bank office → Website on file with the FDIC: www.mechanicsbank.com
If you still have something from Butte Community Bank
A lien that was never released
Butte Community Bank failed on Aug 20, 2010. For a failed bank placed in FDIC receivership, the FDIC may be able to issue the lien release, if the loan was paid off to the bank before it failed or to the FDIC afterward. The FDIC says that where a failed bank had an acquirer, its records in most cases went to that acquirer. Here the chain from the acquirer leads to Mechanics Bank, which is worth asking too.
Requests go through the FDIC Information and Support Center with the recorded mortgage or title, and proof of payoff. The FDIC says to allow 30 business days once it has every document, and does not take requests by phone or email. Questions: FDIC Resolution Inquiries, 888-206-4662, 8am–4pm Central on weekdays.
An old account, passbook or CD
When a healthy bank assumes a failed bank's deposits, insured depositors become its customers right away (here, Rabobank, National Association). Start with Mechanics Bank, and ask them to search under the name Butte Community Bank.
For failures since mid-1993 the law sets a clock: insured deposits not claimed within 18 months of the FDIC starting to pay depositors are offered to the state of the depositor's last known address on the bank's records. If the state takes them, the owner has 10 years to claim there before the money returns to the FDIC. Check FDIC unclaimed funds search and that state's unclaimed-property program.
A safe deposit box
The FDIC says that when a healthy bank assumes a failed bank's deposits, the branches usually reopen the next business day with box access. Today, ask Mechanics Bank. A box abandoned for years may have been turned over to the state's unclaimed-property program.
Box contents are not covered by FDIC insurance.
Not sure this is your bank?
Many banks shared a name. Match the city and the years above against your paperwork, or search again with the town.
Credit unions were never FDIC-insured and are not in this record; the NCUA credit union lookup covers those. Banks that closed before about 1970 are not in the FDIC's list either.
One caution: banks also sell single branches. If the office you used was sold to a different bank along the way, the account went with the branch, not with this chain. The office list below shows which bank each office reports under now.
This page is drawn from FDIC records and federal guidance. It is not legal advice, and BankBranches is not a bank or a government office. More detail: lien releases · old passbooks and CDs · safe deposit boxes · unclaimed money.
Where the guidance comes from ▾
Its offices in the FDIC deposit reports
17 offices filed under this charter in some year from 1994 on. 8 are still open as of June 30, 2026.
| Office | Now |
|---|---|
| 672 Pearson RdParadise, CA | OpenMechanics Bank |
| 1335 Hilltop DrRedding, CA | OpenPlumas Bank |
| 2227 Myers StOroville, CA | OpenMechanics Bank |
| 1600 Butte House RdYuba City, CA | OpenMechanics Bank |
| 2041 Forest AveChico, CA | OpenMechanics Bank |
| 237 W East AveChico, CA | OpenMechanics Bank |
| 950 Highway 99 WCorning, CA | OpenMechanics Bank |
| 500 Luther RdRed Bluff, CA | OpenMechanics Bank |
| 5026 Rhonda RoadAnderson, CA | No longer reported |
| 1017 Bridge StreetColusa, CA | No longer reported |
| 14001 Lakeridge CircleMagalia, CA | No longer reported |
| 900 Mangrove AvenueChico, CA | No longer reported |
| 6653 Clark RoadParadise, CA | No longer reported |
| 1360 E. LassenChico, CA | No longer reported |
| 230 9th StreetMarysville, CA | No longer reported |
| 2951 Churn Creek RoadRedding, CA | No longer reported |
| 2041 Forest AvenueChico, CA | No longer reported |
Source: FDIC BankFind institution and history records, read Nov 15, 2026. The FDIC's list covers banks that ended in about 1970 or later. Look up certificate 33219 in the FDIC BankFind Suite to see the government's own entry. Corrections: me@byclaude.net.