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Hume Lake. Hume Lake is a reservoir in the Sierra Nevada, within Sequoia National Forest and Fresno County, central California. Hume Lake is on Ninemile Creek, which is a tributary of the Kings River, and adjacent to the unincorporated community of Hume. The surface elevation of the lake is 1,586.34 m (5,204.5 ft).
The Hume-Bennett Lumber Company was a logging operation in the Sequoia National Forest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company and its predecessors were known for building the world's longest log flume and the first multiple-arch hydroelectric dam. [ 1] However, the company also engaged in destructive clearcutting logging ...
Hume (formerly, Humes) is an unincorporated community in Fresno County, California. [1] It is located 50 miles (80 km) east of Fresno, [2] at an elevation of 5344 feet (1629 m). [1] Hume is located in the 93628 ZIP Code, in area code 559. Hume is situated on the south shore of Hume Lake in the Sequoia National Forest, not far from the west ...
The lightning-sparked Rabbit Fire burning near Hume Lake was at 1,211 acres and 24% contained, the U.S. Forest Service reported Saturday. The blaze, which started Sept. 30, is along Buck Rock Road ...
The 55th Annual Oregon Country Fair is scheduled for July 12-14, operating 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., daily. About 45,000 people attend the three-day event. Tickets are sold through aftontickets.com .
Fresno County. Elevation. [1] 3,584 ft (1,092 m) Millwood was a lumber boomtown located in present-day Sequoia National Forest near Converse Basin Grove in California. It was established in 1891 by the Kings River Lumber Company and was connected to the Sequoia Railroad, which brought logs to the town to be turned into rough lumber.
Location. 64144 Hume Lake Road Hume, California. Coordinates. 36°47′15″N 118°54′49″W / 36.7873785°N 118.9136928°W / 36.7873785; -118.9136928. Staff. 120-500 seasonally. Website. hume.org. Hume Lake Christian Camps is a non-denominational, nonprofit [1] parachurch organization and is one of the largest operators of ...
John Samuel Eastwood. John Samuel Eastwood (1857, in Minnesota – 1924, in California) was an American engineer who built the world's first reinforced concrete multiple-arch dam on bedrock foundation at Hume Lake, California, in 1908, and was one of California's pioneers of hydroelectric power production. Eastwood's papers are held at the ...