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Ross is a small incorporated town in Marin County, California, United States, just north of San Francisco. Ross is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west-southwest of San Rafael , [ 6 ] at an elevation of 36 feet (11 m). [ 1 ]
Corte Madera Creek is a short stream which flows southeast for 4.5 miles (7.2 km) in Marin County, California. [5] Corte Madera Creek is formed by the confluence of San Anselmo Creek [6] and Ross Creek [7] in Ross and entering a tidal marsh at Kentfield before connecting to San Francisco Bay near Corte Madera.
Ross Lake NRA follows the Skagit River corridor from the Canada–US border to the western foothills of the Cascades. The NRA contains a portion of scenic Washington State Route 20, the North Cascades Highway , and includes three reservoirs : 12,000-acre (4,900 ha) Ross Lake , 910-acre (370 ha) Diablo Lake , and 210-acre (85 ha) Gorge Lake.
View north of De Luz Heights and Ross Lake. View north of De Luz Heights Road, to its terminus at Big Rock Ranch. De Luz Heights is on the Santa Rosa Plateau of the Santa Ana Mountains. It is between De Luz Road to the west and Sandia Creek Drive to the east.
The present name of Fort Ross [5] appears first on a French chart published in 1842 by Eugène Duflot de Mofras, who visited California in 1840. [6] The name of the fort is said to derive from the Russian word rus or ros, the same root as the word "Russia" (Pоссия, Rossiya) (Fort Ross (Russian: Форт-Росс, Kashaya mé·ṭiʔni), originally Fortress Ross (pre-reformed Russian ...
Film in America - Northern California Movies, a partial list of movies filmed in Northern California. AFI Film Catalog, a catalogue of Hollywood films that include filming location information. Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission, includes a map of famous filming locations and filmography lists for both counties.
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
Ross Dam is a 540-foot (160 m)-high, 1,300-foot (400 m)-long concrete thin arch dam across the Skagit River, forming Ross Lake. The dam is in Washington state , while Ross Lake extends 23 miles (37 km) north to British Columbia , Canada .