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Hume Lake. Hume Lake is a reservoir in the Sierra Nevada, within Sequoia National Forest and Fresno County, central California. Hume Lake is on Ninemile Creek, which is a tributary of the Kings River, and adjacent to the unincorporated community of Hume. The surface elevation of the lake is 1,586.34 m (5,204.5 ft).
Location. 64144 Hume Lake Road Hume, California. Coordinates. 36°47′15″N 118°54′49″W / 36.7873785°N 118.9136928°W / 36.7873785; -118.9136928. Staff. 120-500 seasonally. Website. hume.org. Hume Lake Christian Camps is a non-denominational, nonprofit [1] parachurch organization and is one of the largest operators of ...
State Route 180. State Route 180 (SR 180) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California. It runs through the heart of the San Joaquin Valley from State Route 33 in Mendota through Fresno, and then east towards the Sierra Nevada to Kings Canyon National Park. An unbuilt segment of SR 180 is defined west to Paicines.
7 mi (11 km) The Hume-Bennett Lumber Company was a logging operation in the Sequoia National Forest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company and its predecessors were known for building the world's longest log flume and the first multiple-arch hydroelectric dam. [1] However, the company also engaged in destructive clearcutting ...
Hume (formerly, Humes) is an unincorporated community in Fresno County, California. [1] It is located 50 miles (80 km) east of Fresno, [2] at an elevation of 5344 feet (1629 m). [1] Hume is located in the 93628 ZIP Code, in area code 559. Hume is situated on the south shore of Hume Lake in the Sequoia National Forest, not far from the west ...
Fresno County. Elevation. [1] 3,584 ft (1,092 m) Millwood was a lumber boomtown located in present-day Sequoia National Forest near Converse Basin Grove in California. It was established in 1891 by the Kings River Lumber Company and was connected to the Sequoia Railroad, which brought logs to the town to be turned into rough lumber.
Freeways. The Generals Highway is a highway that connects State Route 180 and State Route 198 through Sequoia National Park, Sequoia National Forest, Giant Sequoia National Monument, and Kings Canyon National Park in the Sierra Nevada of California. As the road goes through national parks and monuments, the highway is primarily maintained by ...
California State Route 89. State Route 89 (SR 89) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that travels in the north–south direction, serving as a major thoroughfare for many mountain communities in the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range. It starts from U.S. Route 395 near Topaz Lake, winding its way up to the 8,314-foot (2,534 m ...