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Big Bear Lake is a reservoir in the western United States, located in the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino County, California. It is a snow and rain-fed lake, having no other means of tributaries or mechanical replenishment.
Big Bear Lake was inhabited by the indigenous Serrano people for over 2,000 years before it was explored by Benjamin Wilson and his party. Once populated by only the natives and the grizzly bears, from which the area received its name, the population of the Big Bear Valley grew rapidly during the Southern California gold rush from 1861 to 1912.
Big Bear Valley is a valley in San Bernardino County, California, United States. The valley, in the San Bernardino Mountains , includes Big Bear Lake , Big Bear City , Fawnskin , Holcomb Valley , Sugarloaf , Erwin Lake, Baldwin Lake , Bluff Lake and Lake Williams.
The Holcomb Fire was a wildfire that burned due north of Big Bear Lake near Highway 18 in the San Bernardino National Forest in San Bernardino County, California.Within several days, the fire would consume some 1,500 plus acres as it threatened the areas of Baldwin Lake (San Bernardino County, California) and Highway 18.
A fire began approximately at 4:00 PM on June 17, 2015, behind Camp de Benneville Pines in the Jenks Lake area of Barton Flats. [1] The cause remains unknown. [2] The flames traveled east and southeast. The surrounding Mojave Desert was filled with ash and smoke, hiding the sun for three days. On June 27, rain put out the fire.
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An unintended effect of the lake was to dramatically increase tourism in the San Bernardino Mountains, and its shores were developed with lodges and visitor facilities by the 1920s. The old logging camp of Big Bear Lake was expanded to accommodate increasing numbers of tourists from all over Southern California. [48]
The fire largely burned in the San Bernardino National Forest south of Big Bear Lake and north of Oak Glen Location in Southern California The El Dorado Fire was a wildfire that burned 22,744 acres (9,204 ha; 35.538 sq mi; 92.04 km 2 ) in San Bernardino and Riverside counties of California from September to November 2020.