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San Dimas (Spanish for "Saint Dismas") [10] is a city in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California, United States. At the 2020 census , its population was 34,924. It historically took its name from San Dimas Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains above the northern section of present-day San Dimas.
It impounds Walnut Creek, a tributary of the San Gabriel River, to form Puddingstone Reservoir, which can hold more than 20,000 acre⋅ft (25,000,000 m 3) of water. [1] The reservoir stores floodwater from both the Walnut Creek Wash, and also the San Dimas Wash, to which it is connected by a short artificial channel below San Dimas Dam.
The dam is surrounded by the San Gabriel Mountains and has an incoming flow from the San Dimas Creek. The dam controls flooding from San Dimas Creek, a major San Gabriel Mountains drainage and tributary of the San Gabriel River. The dam diverts floodwater to Puddingstone Reservoir, protecting the area in and around San Dimas. [6]
Big Dalton Dam near full capacity, February 15, 1973. Big Dalton Dam is a multiple arch concrete dam in Los Angeles County, California, built for the Los Angeles County Flood Control District and completed in August 1929.
San Dimas may refer to: San Dimas Municipality, Durango, Mexico; San Dimas, California, United States; San Dimas (reserve), a biosphere reserve and experimental forest in southern California; San Dimas Dam, in California, United States; San Dimas (guitar), model of electric guitar made by Charvel
There were 309 people living in West San Dimas, according to the US Census. The population density was 937 inhabitants per square mile. The population density was 937 inhabitants per square mile. The racial makeup of the area was 59.5% White, 19.9% Latino, 15.5% Asian, 2.9% African American, and 2.2% from other races.
This lake was created in 1972, [1] and completed in 1973, as a holding reservoir for the California State Water Project. The lake was named after a pyramid-shaped rock carved out by engineers building U.S. Route 99. [2]
The Park Avenue Bridge over the San Francisco River in Clifton, Arizona. The San Francisco River is a 159-mile-long (256 km) [1] river in the southwest United States, [2] the largest tributary of the Upper Gila River. It originates near Alpine, Arizona and flows into New Mexico before reentering Arizona and joining the Gila downstream from Clifton.