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Lake Siskiyou is a reservoir formed by Box Canyon Dam [1] on the Sacramento River, in far northern California, near the town of Mt. Shasta, California. [2] It is the site of local recreation, as well as being used for watershed protection and flood control .
Lake Siskiyou: Total capacity: 26,000 acre⋅ft (32,000,000 m 3) Surface area: 430 acres (170 ha) Box Canyon Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Upper Sacramento ...
Siskiyou County (/ ˈ s ɪ s k juː / ⓘ SISK-yoo) is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,076. [3] Its county seat is Yreka and its highest point is Mount Shasta. [5] It falls within the Cascadia bioregion. [6] Siskiyou County is in the Shasta Cascade region ...
Castle Lake is a glacial lake (cirque lake or tarn) located in the Trinity Mountains, in Siskiyou County of northern California. It is west of Mount Shasta City and Mount Shasta peak. The outlet of the lake drains into Castle Lake Creek, and then into Lake Siskiyou reservoir, part of the headwaters of the Sacramento River .
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]
Iron Gate Reservoir was an artificial lake on the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, California, near the Oregon border of the United States. The lake's waters were impounded by the Iron Gate Dam and operated by PacifiCorp. It had an average depth of 70 feet (21.4 m). [12] Removal of the Iron Gate Dam in 2024
Copco Lake was an artificial lake on the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, California, near the Oregon border. The lake's waters were impounded by the Copco Number 1 Dam , which was completed in 1922 as part of the Klamath River Hydroelectric Project .
March 12, 2018 (Hill R., 2 mi. S of jct. with CA 161, Tule Lake National Monument Tulelake: Originally a Civilian Conservation Corps camp established in 1935. During World War II, a maximum security prison camp for incarcerating dissident interned Japanese Americans (1943) and German prisoners of war (1944–1946).