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Lake Hemet is a water storage reservoir located in the San Jacinto Mountains in Mountain Center, Riverside County, California, [1] with a capacity of 14,000 acre-feet (17,000,000 m 3) [2] of water. It was created in 1895 with the construction of Lake Hemet Dam . [ 3 ]
East of the CA 74/U.S. 395 junction, from Romoland-east, was CA 740 (Florida Avenue). The western portion of Route 74 in Orange County follows San Juan Creek and is named the Ortega Highway, after the Spanish explorer Sgt. José Francisco Ortega who led the scouts of the 1769 Portola expedition , first non-natives to ever see the area.
Sutherland Dam Road – Lake Sutherland: Santa Ysabel: 51.11: SR 79 north / Washington Street – Lake Henshaw, Warner Springs, Hemet: West end of SR 79 overlap: Julian: 58.13: SR 79 south – Lake Cuyamaca, Cuyamaca Park: East end of SR 79 overlap 69.69: CR S2 south (Great Southern Overland Stage Route of 1849) to I-8 – Ocotillo: West end of ...
Hemet was named by the land development company that founded the town, The Lake Hemet Land Company. The company drew its name from Hemet Valley, now called Garner Valley, located in the San Jacinto Mountains. Initially, the company referred to the area as South San Jacinto, but changed the name to Hemet when the land company filed a plat map on ...
Steven Rucker Memorial Highway sign, looking north SR 79 looking north with Lake Cuyamaca on the right California State Route 78 and 79 in Julian. State Route 79 (SR 79) is an approximately 106-mile (171 km) north-south state highway in the U.S. state of California.
State Route 99 (SR 99) is a major north–south state highway in the U.S. state of California, stretching almost the entire length of the Central Valley.From its southern end at Interstate 5 (I-5) near Wheeler Ridge to its northern end at SR 36 near Red Bluff, SR 99 goes through the densely populated eastern parts of the valley.
State Route 371 (SR 371) is a state highway in Riverside County, California, serving as a 20.75-mile (33.39 km) connector from SR 79 near Aguanga to SR 74 near Anza. The highway crosses through the private community of Lake Riverside, as well as Cahuilla and the Cahuilla Indian Reservation. It is the primary road running through Anza but mostly ...
State Route 243 (SR 243), or the Banning-Idyllwild Panoramic Highway, is a 30-mile (48-kilometer) two-lane state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs from Banning (in the north) to Idyllwild (in the south) in Riverside County.