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Explore California's longest river with interactive maps, activities, and events. Learn about its history, ecology, and how to access its natural beauty.
The river stretches some 384 miles from its headwaters near Mount Shasta to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Meandering south through the Sacramento Valley, the river helps support the valley’s 2 million acres of irrigated agriculture. The primary crops grown are rice, wheat, corn, alfalfa, deciduous orchard crops, tomatoes and other vegetables.
Summary. This dataset is a point coverage that identifies river mile markers along the Sacramento River. The river mile markers are a commonly-used reference system for discussing areas and locations along the River. This particular dataset is from the Army Corps of Engineers river miles from the 1991 Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento River Atlas.
Sacramento River GIS - Data Library. This data library provides public access to a wide array of geospatial data developed for the Sacramento River. The Sacramento River GIS was co-developed by the California Department of Water Resources and the Forum as a planning tool to help resolve management questions as they arise at specific river ...
Sacramento River. The Sacramento River is California’s largest river, providing 35 percent of the state’s developed water supply. The river helps support the valley’s millions of acres of irrigated agriculture and is home to wildlife and a range of aquatic species, including rearing habitat for 70 percent of all salmon caught off the ...
The Sacramento River Geomorphic Atlas (1896-2012) (SRGA) documents the geomorphology of the middle reach of the Sacramento River from Red Bluff to Colusa, California, shown in Figure 1. The SRGA was created using a combination of geologic maps, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) topographic maps, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and National ...
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is California’s most crucial water and ecological resource. It is the largest freshwater tidal estuary of its kind on the west coast of the Americas, providing important habitat for birds on the Pacific Flyway and for fish that live in or pass through the Delta. It also the hub of California’s two largest ...
A dialog will display from which you can change the current basemap and its opacity. on the top toolbar. A dialog will display from which you can generate a web-link which will load your custom map. An interactive map viewer allowing visualization and access to various datasets within the Sacramento River GIS.
Map with portion of the Sacramento River, base of the Sierra Nevadas, and Butte Creek shown. Slide Notes: "Capt. Warner's exploring party, August-October, 1849. Bancroft Library." Photograph Source: University of California, Berkeley-Bancroft Library Collection. :70. The Sacramento River Library contains a diverse collection of publications ...
The proposed Sites Reservoir would be an off-river storage basin on the west side of the Sacramento Valley, about 78 miles northwest of Sacramento. It would capture stormwater flows from the Sacramento River for release in dry and critical years for fish and wildlife and for farms, communities and businesses.