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Crowley Lake is a reservoir on the upper Owens River in southern Mono County, California, in the United States.Crowley Lake is 15 mi (24 km) south of Mammoth Lakes.. The lake was created in 1941 by the building of the Long Valley Dam by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP), as storage for the Los Angeles Aqueduct and for flood control.
Crowley Lake is a census-designated place in Mono County, California. Crowley Lake sits at an elevation of 6,939 feet (2,115 m). Crowley Lake sits at an elevation of 6,939 feet (2,115 m). The 2020 United States census reported Crowley Lake's population was 980.
The Owens River course includes headwaters points near the Upper San Joaquin Watershed, [2] reservoirs and diversion points (e.g., for the Los Angeles Aqueduct), and the river's mouth at Owens Lake. The river drains the Crowley Lake Watershed (USGS HUC 18090102) of 1,900 sq mi (4,900 km 2) and the north portion of the Owens Lake Watershed (USGS ...
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Fr. John J. Crowley (December 8, 1891 - March 17, 1940), often referred to as the Desert Padre, was an early 20th century Catholic priest in California's large but sparsely populated Eastern Sierra. He served there from 1919 to 1940, with an interlude, mainly in Fresno, from about 1924 to 1934.
The Bishop Tuff caps a volcanic plateau in the northern Owens Valley in eastern California.The tableland formation is located east of U.S. Route 395 and west of the Nevada stateline, sitting northwest of Bishop and southeast of Crowley Lake and Mammoth Lakes.
Mono County (/ ˈ m oʊ n oʊ / MOH-noh) is a county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of California.As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 13,195, [6] making it the fourth-least populous county in California.
Mono Lake (/ ˈ m oʊ n oʊ / MOH-noh) is a saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in an endorheic basin. The lack of an outlet causes high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake which make its water alkaline .