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Baxter is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California. [1] Baxter is located 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Dutch Flat. [2] It lies at an elevation of 3891 feet (1186 m). [1] Baxter started as a travelers' rest stop on the Lincoln Highway, later US 40. Food, lodging, and gasoline were available at the site, which remained a service stop ...
Elevation: 13,141 ft (4,005 m) ... Mount Baxter is a peak along the crest of the Sierra Nevada in California. Mount Baxter is on the boundary between Kings Canyon ...
The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [b] [c] The first table below ranks the 50 highest major summits of California by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
Elevation Location of lowest point Minimum elevation Vertical relief; 1 Denali: Denali: Alaska Range: 20,310 feet (6,190 m) Yentna River [1] 240 feet (73 m) 20,070 feet (6,120 m) 2 Wrangell-St. Elias: Mount Saint Elias: Saint Elias Mountains: 18,008 feet (5,489 m) Gulf of Alaska: 0 feet (0 m) 18,008 feet (5,489 m) 3 Glacier Bay: Mount Fairweather
In contrast to most of southern California, the Big Bear Lake region normally receives significant winter snow because of its high elevation. Snowfall, as measured at lake level, averages 58.6 in (149 cm) per season; upwards of 100 in (250 cm) can accumulate on the forested ridges bordering the lake, at elevations above 8,000 ft (2,400 m).
The Tule River, also called Rio de San Pedro or Rio San Pedro, [2] is a 71.4-mile (114.9 km) [1] river in Tulare County in the U.S. state of California. The river originates in the Sierra Nevada east of Porterville and consists of three forks, North, Middle and South. The North Fork and Middle Fork meet above Springville.
Mount Baxter may refer to: Mount Baxter (California), a mountain in the Sierra Nevada range of California; Mount Baxter (Antarctica), a mountain in Antarctica; Baxter Peak, the highest point on Mount Katahdin, the centerpiece of Baxter State Park, Maine
Baxter Creek or Stege Creek [1] (also archaically Bishop Creek [1]), is a three-branch creek in Richmond and El Cerrito, California, United States, forming the Baxter Creek watershed. The creek has three sources and flows from the Berkeley Hills to Stege Marsh and the San Francisco Bay. The Baxter Creek watershed at-large has 10 sources. [2]