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The city of Oroville declared a state of emergency as state and federal resources pour in to fight the place. Four homes destroyed, 13k remain evacuated as Thompson Fire burns 3,000 acres in Butte ...
Lake Oroville [1] is a reservoir formed by the Oroville Dam impounding the Feather River, located in Butte County, northern California. The lake is situated 5 miles (8 km) northeast of the city of Oroville , within the Lake Oroville State Recreation Area , in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada .
Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of the Sacramento Valley. At 770 feet (235 m) high, it is the tallest dam in the U.S. [ 8 ] and serves mainly for water supply, hydroelectricity generation, and flood control.
Kelly Ridge sits at an elevation of 1050 feet (320 m), on a ridge above Lake Oroville reservoir in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The community of Kelly Ridge offers direct access to boating, camping, fishing and a variety of water sports.
The Oroville–Thermalito Complex is a group of reservoirs, structures, and facilities located in and around the city of Oroville in Butte County, California.The complex serves not only as a regional water conveyance and storage system, but is the headwaters for, and therefore perhaps is the most vital part of, the California Department of Water Resources' State Water Project, as one of the ...
Lake Oroville, a key component of California’s water supply, also benefited from the early-winter storms, as satellite images attest. On Nov. 19, when the first photo was taken, the reservoir ...
The Thompson Fire, which has been burning in Butte County near Lake Oroville since 11 a.m. Tuesday, was 3,568 acres (5.5 square miles) as of noon Wednesday, according to the Cal Fire website.
Photograph of Lake Oroville in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The Oroville Dam is the tallest dam in the US and one of the 20 largest dams in the world. This dam is 770 feet (230 m) tall and 6,920 feet (2,110 m) long, and it impounds Lake Oroville, which has a capacity of 3,500,000 acre⋅ft (4.3 × 10 −6 million km 3 ) of ...