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Federally, Chester is in California's 1st congressional district, represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa. [30] Chester Elementary School, Chester Junior Senior High School, and Almanor High School (continuation) are part of the Plumas Unified School District based in Quincy, California. The Chester Learning Center is a private charter school.
Canyon Dam (National ID # CA00327m also known as Lake Almanor Dam [1]) is an embankment dam on the North Fork Feather River in northern California, 16 mi (26 km) southwest of Westwood. Located about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Chester , the dam forms Lake Almanor , a large and shallow reservoir surrounded by the Cascade mountains.
Located southeast of Chester, Lake Almanor, formed by the 130-foot (40 m) high, 1,250-foot (380 m) long earthfill Canyon Dam (also known as Almanor Dam), is the primary storage facility for the project, with a capacity of 1,308,000 acre-feet (1.613 km 3) of water. At 28,160 acres (11,400 ha), Almanor is one of California's largest artificial ...
Lake Almanor is a large reservoir in northwestern Plumas County, northeastern California, United States. The reservoir has a capacity of 1,308,000 acre-feet (1.613 × 10 9 m 3 ) and a maximum depth of about 90 feet (27 meters).
A map by the California Geological Survey shows faults near the Lake Almanor area in Plumas County, where a magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Thursday, May 11, 2023, followed by a magnitude 5.2 ...
Almanor (formerly, Plumas Pines) [3] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plumas County, California, United States. [4] The population was 0 at the 2010 Census, but as of 2020, the population was reported as 3. [5] Almanor is located 7 miles (11.3 km) south-southeast of Chester. [3]
The Almanor Railroad (reporting mark AL) was a Class III short-line railroad operating in Northern California, USA. It was owned by Collins Pine Company, a division of The Collins Companies and annually hauled approximately 300 carloads of timber and lumber products generated at the mill.
Once the highway reaches the western shore of Lake Almanor, SR 89 continues southeast, while SR 36 passes through the community of Chester along the northern shore of Lake Almanor. [3] The route continues into Lassen County, where it intersects SR 147 and passes in between Lassen and Plumas National Forests.