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Black Butte Lake is an artificial lake located in Tehama and Glenn counties in the U.S. state of California. [2] The lake was formed from Stony Creek in 1963 (62 years ago) () upon the completion of Black Butte Dam [1] by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The dam is located approximately 9 miles (14.5 km) west of Orland. At full pool, the lake ...
Black Butte Lake is an artificial lake created to provide flood control and irrigation. The Orland Buttes stand in the fields of the northern Central Valley of California. The southern butte is the highest at 1,037 feet (316 m) while the northern butte has a summit elevation of about 943 feet (287 m) [2] They are a popular hiking/climbing ...
Black Butte is not part of the Orland project, but can be used to store extra irrigation water in wet years. [45] Its original capacity was 160,000 acre-feet (200,000,000 m 3 ), but heavy sediment build-up had reduced this to 135,000 acre-feet (167,000,000 m 3 ) by 1997, and the reservoir continues to lose about 700 acre-feet (860,000 m 3 ) per ...
In 2003, the state of California spent about $3 million to buy 1,800 acres on the north side of the buttes, including an idyllic stretch of emerald called "Peace Valley."
Orland is a rural agricultural town that sits in the northern Sacramento Valley. Interstate 5 is just west of the town. The Sacramento River runs 10 miles (16 km) East of Orland and Black Butte Lake sits 8 miles (13 km) West. The Black Butte Lake dam drains into Stony Creek, which flows about a half-mile north of the Orland Arch.
From 1887 to 1911, Black Butte Summit was the name of a station on the Southern Pacific (SP) Siskiyou Line near Summit Lake, about a mile south of Black Butte. [9] In 1924–1926, the Natron Cutoff was built by SP as an alternative to the steep Siskiyou route and a small rail yard, wye, and train orders office were built at the present site of Black Butte on the rerouted line. [9]
It rises to an elevation of 7,455 feet (2,272 m) north of the Black Butte River. The mountain on the Mendocino National Forest is the highest point in county of Glenn County. In spite of the difference in elevation between the river valley at 2,800 feet (850 m) and Black Butte, the summit's prominence is moderate due to the neighboring 6,500 ...
The Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act of 2006 added 21 miles (34 km) of the Black Butte River (and a tributary Cold Creek) to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, of which 17.5 miles (28.2 km) are Wild status and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) are Scenic. [2]