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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 .
Reservoirs in Siskiyou County, California (5 P) Pages in category "Lakes of Siskiyou County, California" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Pages in category "Reservoirs in Siskiyou County, California" ... Lake Siskiyou; U. Ukonom Lake This page was last edited on 23 February 2014, at 23:30 ...
Siskiyou County Flood Control & Water Conservation District and Siskiyou Power Authority: Dam and spillways; Impounds: Upper Sacramento River: Height: 209 ft (64 m) Length: 1,100 ft (340 m) Width (base) 200 feet (61 m) Reservoir; Creates: Lake Siskiyou: Total capacity: 26,000 acre⋅ft (32,000,000 m 3) Surface area: 430 acres (170 ha)
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 .
Siskiyou County was created on March 22, 1852, from parts of Shasta and Klamath Counties, and named after the Siskiyou mountain range. Parts of the county's territory were given to Modoc County in 1855. The county is the site of the central section of the Siskiyou Trail, which ran between California's Central Valley and the Pacific Northwest.
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]
Meiss Lake is a 3,000-acre (12 km 2), shallow, warm lake located in the western portion of Butte Valley, in eastern Siskiyou County.The lake is a remnant of a larger lake that occupied the entire valley when temperatures were cooler and is fed seasonally by several creeks in Butte Valley.