Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bishop, California. Bishop (formerly Bishop Creek) [5] is a city in California, United States. It is the most populous place and the only incorporated city in Inyo County. It is located near the northern end of the Owens Valley and the Mojave Desert, at an elevation of 4,150 feet (1,260 m). [4] The city was named after Bishop Creek, flowing out ...
Bishop Creek is a 10.1-mile-long (16.3 km) [1] stream in Inyo County, California. It is the largest tributary of the Owens River. It has five hydroelectric plants owned by Southern California Edison, Bishop Creek #2–6. Bishop Creek #1 was never completed. Parts of the creek run through pipelines, or penstocks, to increase output at the power ...
Battle of Bishop Creek was one of the early engagements of the Owens Valley Indian War fought on April 6, 1862, along Bishop Creek, in what is now Inyo County, California . North Bishop Creek. In 1861, cattle were being driven over the Sierra Nevada Mountains to feed the mining boom town of Aurora. Some cattlemen had begun ranching nearby in ...
Tourists flocking to view aspens, cottonwoods and maple trees along Bishop Creek Canyon near Bishop, California, which is along the Eastern Sierra Scenic Byway. - George Rose/Getty Images.
6 m 3) [1] Surface elevation. 9,128 feet (2,782 m) Lake Sabrina is a lake created by damming the middle fork of Bishop Creek. [2] It is located south-west of Bishop, California on California State Route 168, in the Inyo National Forest. [3] It has a cafe as well as a dock. The dam was built in 1907–8 to supply a constant flow of water to the ...
With an area of 10,192 square miles (26,400 km 2), Inyo is the second-largest county by area in California, after San Bernardino County. Almost half of that area is within Death Valley National Park. However, with a population density of 1.8 people per square mile, it also has the second-lowest population density in California, after Alpine County.
811. Bishop Creek Battleground. State Hwy 168 and Bishop Creek Rd. 37°20′29″N 118°28′52″W. / 37.341517°N 118.4812°W / 37.341517; -118.4812 ( Bishop Creek Battleground) Bishop. Burned Wagons Point. 441. Burned Wagons Point.
The Bishop Paiute Tribe, formerly known as the Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community of the Bishop Colony[2] is a federally recognized tribe of Mono and Timbisha Indians of the Owens Valley, in Inyo County of eastern California. [1] As of 2022, the United States census showed the Bishop Paiute Tribe's population at 1,914.