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Big Bear Lake was inhabited by the indigenous Serrano people for over 2,000 years before it was explored by Benjamin Wilson and his party. Once populated by only the natives and the grizzly bears, from which the area received its name, the population of the Big Bear Valley grew rapidly during the Southern California gold rush from 1861 to 1912.
73,320 acre⋅ft (0.0904 km 3) Surface elevation. 6,743 ft (2,055 m) Big Bear Lake is a reservoir in the western United States, located in the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino County, California. It is a snow and rain-fed lake, having no other means of tributaries or mechanical replenishment. At a surface elevation of 6,743 ft (2,055 ...
The fire started on June 17, 2015, and burned over 31,359 acres before it was fully contained on July 21, 2015. [3] [4] The fire was first reported at 4 p.m. on June 17, 2015, just South of Big Bear Lake in San Bernardino County, and grew extremely quickly in the surrounding densely wooded mountain areas at an elevation of between 6,000 to ...
Christopher Jordan Dorner (June 4, 1979 [2] – February 12, 2013) was a former officer of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) who, beginning on February 3, 2013, committed a series of killings against the LAPD in Orange County, Los Angeles County, Riverside County and San Bernardino County in the U.S. state of California. [3]
The fire largely burned in the San Bernardino National Forest south of Big Bear Lake and north of Oak Glen. Location in Southern California. The El Dorado Fire was a wildfire that burned 22,744 acres (9,204 ha; 35.538 sq mi; 92.04 km 2) in San Bernardino and Riverside counties of California from September to November 2020.
The Borel Fire was a large and destructive wildfire started in July 2024 that burned south of Lake Isabella in Kern County, California. The fire burned a total of 59,288 acres (23,993 hectares) before being contained on September 15, 2024.
List of California wildfires. Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of California wildfires.
Big Bear City is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, United States along the east shore of Big Bear Lake and surrounded by the San Bernardino National Forest. It is 27 miles (43 km) northeast of the city of San Bernardino , and immediately east of the incorporated city of Big Bear Lake .