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Lake Leavitt (not to be confused with Leavitt Lake, which is an alpine lake in Mono County [2]) is a reservoir in Lassen County, California, United States. The 1,142 acres (462 hectares) lake was created in 1889 from a natural sinkhole by Benjamin H. Leavitt.
Sonora Pass (el. 9,624 ft. / 2,933 m.) is a mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada in California. It is the second-highest pass with a road in California and in the Sierra Nevada. [2] It is 321 feet (98 m) lower than Tioga Pass to the south. [3] State Route 108 traverses the pass, as does the Pacific Crest Trail.
Leavitt Peak is located in the Emigrant Wilderness near Sonora Pass in the eastern Sierra Nevada range of California. Leavitt Peak is located on the Tuolumne County - Mono County line. The Pacific Crest Trail runs close to the east of Leavitt Peak, at an elevation of about 10,800 feet (3,290 m) elevation. [ 6 ]
Leavitt also named nearby Clinton, California, for his hometown of Clinton in Kennebec County, Maine. [6] (The town was renamed Leavitt Lake in 1973 when house construction began there.) [7] Benjamin Leavitt was married to Celara Cleveland (Edwards) Leavitt, born in Massachusetts. A post office at Leavitt was established in October 1914, and ...
Hiram Leavitt (1824–1901) was an early settler, innkeeper, and judge in Mono County, California, in the eastern Sierra Nevada. Leavitt left his mark in the area and is the namesake of features such as Leavitt Peak , Leavitt Meadow, Leavitt Creek and Leavitt Lake.
California officials have geared up for a long fight against flooding. Nearly 700 people were assigned to help with the emergency response just in Tulare County , where floodwater has damaged more ...
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
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