Chapmantown (originally called Chapman's Addition, Kenyan Oaks, and also Chapmanville) is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California. It lies at an elevation of 207 feet (63 m). It is a working class residential neighborhood. The neighborhood is named after Augustus Chapman an 1860 emigrant from Michigan to Chico. Mr. Chapman was owner of a hotel, general store and a large lumber mill with a retail store in Chico. Chapman designed a subdivision which developed rapidly and which is known to this day as Chapmantown (NPS 1982).