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The Feather River is the principal tributary of the Sacramento River, in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. The river's main stem is about 73 miles (117 km) long. Its length to its most distant headwater tributary is just over 210 miles (340 km). The main stem Feather River begins in Lake Oroville, where its four long tributary forks join—the South Fork, Middle Fork, North Fork, and West Branch Feather Rivers. These and other tributaries drain part of the northern Sierra Nevada, and the extreme southern Cascades, as well as a small portion of the Sacramento Valley. The total drainage basin is about 6,200 square miles (16,000 km2), with approximately 3,604 square miles (9,330 km2) above Lake Oroville.
The Sauk River is a tributary of the Skagit River, approximately 45 miles (72 km) long, in northwestern Washington in the United States. It drains an area of the high Cascade Range in the watershed of Puget Sound north of Seattle. The river is a popular destination for fly fishing. It is a National Wild and Scenic River.
The Cook–Folsom–Peterson Expedition of 1869 was the first organized expedition to explore the region that became Yellowstone National Park. The privately financed expedition was carried out by David E. Folsom, Charles W. Cook and William Peterson of Diamond City, Montana, a gold camp in the Confederate Gulch area of the Big Belt Mountains east of Helena, Montana. The journals kept by Cook and Folsom, as well as their personal accounts to friends were of significant inspirational value to spur the organization of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition which visited Yellowstone in 1870.
Gold mining in Colorado, a state of the United States, has been an industry since 1858. It also played a key role in the establishment of the state of Colorado.
The North Fork Feather River is a watercourse of the northern Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades in the U.S. state of California. It flows generally southwards from its headwaters near Lassen Peak to Lake Oroville, a reservoir formed by Oroville Dam in the foothills of the Sierra, where it runs into the Feather River. The river drains about 2,100 square miles (5,400 km2) of the western slope of the Sierras. By discharge, it is the largest tributary of the Feather.
The Canyons of the Escalante is a collective name for the erosional landforms created by the Escalante River and its tributaries—the Escalante River Basin. Located in southern Utah in the western United States, these sandstone features include high vertical canyon walls, numerous slot canyons, waterpockets, domes, hoodoos, natural arches and bridges. This area—extending over 1,500 square miles (3,885 km2) and rising in elevation from 3,600 ft (1,097 m) to over 11,000 ft (3,353 m)—is one of the three main sections of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, and also a part of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, with Capitol Reef National Park being adjacent to the east.
Ingram Creek, originally Arroyo de la Suerte, is a 14-mile-long (23 km) tributary of the San Joaquin River in Stanislaus County, in the San Joaquin Valley of California.
North Fork is an unincorporated community in Lemhi County, Idaho.
Eagle Creek is a tributary of the Columbia River in Multnomah and Hood River counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. It cuts through a narrow canyon in its 3,200 feet (980 m) descent to the Columbia River Gorge and is known for its concentration of 13 waterfalls in about 5 miles (8.0 km) distance. Eight major falls are on Eagle Creek and the East Fork Eagle Creek itself, while five are on its tributaries.
The Piedra River is a river in the U.S. state of Colorado. It drains parts of Archuleta, Hinsdale, and Mineral counties along a mainstem length of about 40 miles (64 km). The river flows through a series of isolated box canyons, emptying into the San Juan River at Navajo Lake. Its name stems from the Spanish word, piedra, meaning rock.
Big Creek is a stream in Shannon and Texas counties in the Ozarks of southern Missouri. It is a tributary of the Current River.
Ingram Canyon is a valley or canyon where the upper reach of Ingram Creek runs in Stanislaus County, California.
Mississippi Creek is a tributary stream to Pacheco Creek in Santa Clara County, California.
South Fork Orestimba Creek is a tributary stream of Orestimba Creek, in the Diablo Range in Stanislaus County, California. Its mouth lies at an elevation of 673 feet at its confluence with North Fork Orestimba Creek where it forms the head of Orestimba Creek, itself a tributary of the San Joaquin River. Its source is at an elevation of 1,550 feet at 37°09′26″N121°23′06″W in Henry W. Coe State Park.
North Fork Orestimba Creek is a tributary stream of Orestimba Creek, in the Diablo Range in Stanislaus County, California. Its mouth lies at an elevation of 673 feet at its confluence with South Fork Orestimba Creek where it forms the head of Orestimba Creek, itself a tributary of the San Joaquin River. Its source is at an elevation of 3,250 feet at 37°20′37″N121°24′44″W on the north slope of the northern ridge of Black Mountain.
North Fork Pacheco Creek is a 19 miles (31 km) tributary stream of Pacheco Creek, in Santa Clara County, California. Originally it was considered the upper reach of Pacheco Creek. Its source is at an elevation of 2,360 feet (720 m) at 37°11′17″N121°25′42″W on a mountain side in Henry W. Coe State Park and is the headwaters of the Pajaro River watershed.
Fifield Ranch is a locale within the Diablo Range in Santa Clara County, California. It lies at an elevation of 1,512 feet, west of the head of Romero Creek and the Santa Clara County line, about a mile north of Hagerman Peak. It is at the source of a tributary canyon and stream to Chimney Gulch, itself a tributary of East Fork Pacheco Creek.
East Fork Pacheco Creek is a 5 mile long tributary stream of North Fork Pacheco Creek in the Diablo Range in Santa Clara County, California. Its confluence with the North Fork is at an elevation of 610 feet. Its source is located about a half mile nortnortheast of the Fifield Ranch at 37°08′07″N121°13′47″W at an elevation of 1,600 feet just west of County Line Road that runs along the crest of the Diablo Range between Santa Clara County and Stanislaus County, California about a quarter mile before its intersection with the Fifield Grade and McCabe Road that climbs upward from the canyon of Romero Creek on the east slope of the Diablo Range in Merced County, California.
Bullhead Canyon, is a canyon and tributary stream of the North Fork Pacheco Creek in Santa Clara County, California. Its mouth is on its confluence with North Fork Pacheco Creek at an elevation of 630 feet. Its source and its upper reach is at 37°10′08″N121°19′04″W within the boundary of Henry W. Coe State Park. It is overlooked to the north by the County Line Road,, that runs west to east along the divide of the Diablo Range and the boundary of Santa Clara and Stanislaus County, California.
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Coordinates: 37°06′34″N121°15′19″W / 37.10944°N 121.25528°W