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  2. Santa Ana River | Wikipedia

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    The Santa Ana River rises in the southern San Bernardino Mountains, at the confluence of two tiny streams, Heart Bar Creek and Coon Creek, at an elevation of 6,991 feet (2,131 m). [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Its highest sources are Dollar Lake, at 9,288 feet (2,831 m), [ 10 ] and Dry Lake, at 9,068 feet (2,764 m), [ 11 ] both on the northern flank of San ...

  3. South Fork Eel River | Wikipedia

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    The creek begins in the easternmost of these two sub-ranges. It then flows west, cutting a water gap through the western subrange, and spills into the South Fork. The creek is about 21 miles (34 km) long, despite the name. [8] Ten Mile Creek a tributary to the South Fork of the Eel River, south of Bowman Place, California.

  4. Ballona Creek | Wikipedia

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    "Ballona Watershed Map". The Ballona Creek watershed totals about 130 square miles (340 square kilometers). According to a 1948 report in the Venice Evening Vanguard, "The total area drained by Ballona Creek consists of 86 square miles (220 km 2) square miles of coastal plain and 74 square miles (190 km 2) of foothills and plain range from sea level to 250 feet (76 m) and in the mountains from ...

  5. Forward progress stopped on Creek Fire burning in El Dorado ...

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    The Creek Fire started about 3:30 p.m. in the 2700 block of Coon Creek Road in Greenwood, 7 miles east of Auburn and 4 miles west of Georgetown, Cal Fire’s Amador-El Dorado unit said in social ...

  6. Lily May Ledford | Wikipedia

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    Lily May Ledford (March 17, 1917 – July 14, 1985) was an American clawhammer banjo and fiddle player. [1] After gaining regional radio fame in the late 1930s as head of the Coon Creek Girls, one of the first all-female string bands to appear on radio, Ledford went on to gain national renown as a solo artist during the American folk music revival of the 1960s.

  7. List of rivers of California | Wikipedia

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    Marsh Creek. Mokelumne River (jump to tributaries) Old River (side channel of San Joaquin River) Middle River (side channel of San Joaquin River) Bear Creek. Calaveras River (jump to tributaries) Mormon Slough (distributary of Calaveras River) French Camp Slough. Littlejohns Creek.

  8. Canebrake Ecological Reserve | Wikipedia

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    Canebrake Ecological Reserve is a 6,700-acre (27 km 2) [2] nature reserve in the South Fork Valley of Kern County, 20 miles (32 km) east of Lake Isabella, California. It is located in the Southern Sierra Nevada region. Historian Wallace M. Morgan, in History of Kern County, California, wrote that the South Fork Valley was the first area settled ...

  9. CalFire warned that smoke from the wildfires is negatively impacting air quality for much of the region, advising residents to stay indoors if possible and wear a mask outside.. A 34-year-old man ...