Panoche Valley | |
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Floor elevation | 1,253 ft (382 m) [1] |
Geography | |
Coordinates | 36°37′00″N120°51′04″W / 36.61667°N 120.85111°W Coordinates: 36°37′00″N120°51′04″W / 36.61667°N 120.85111°W [1] |
Topo map | Panoche, Mercey Hot Springs, Llanada [1] |
Rivers | Panoche Creek, Las Aguilas Creek, Griswold Creek |
Panoche Valley is a grassland valley lying between the Diablo Range and the San Joaquin Valley, in San Benito County, California. [1] The valley is bound on the north by Panoche Hills, on the east by Tumey Hills, on the south by the Griswold Hills and Cerro Bonito, and on the in west by Las Aguilas Mountains. [1] The valley is known by naturalists as a hot spot for rare birds and mammals, and for providing a glimpse of old California.
Panoche Valley was originally called Valle de Panoche Grande, later anglicized as Big Panoche Valley, after the former names of Panoche Creek that runs through it. Panoche is Mexican Spanish for a coarse grade of sugar made in Mexico, also for a diminutive of pan, (bread). [2]
Panoche Valley is also the site of the Panoche Valley Solar Farm.
The upper end of the valley has its location northwest of Walker Peak where the creek enters the Diablo Range at 36°36′59″N120°56′29″W / 36.61639°N 120.94139°W .
The town of Panoche, lies in this valley. After wet winters, the valley sometimes hosts spectacular spring wildflower displays.
The Diablo Range is a mountain range in the California Coast Ranges subdivision of the Pacific Coast Ranges in northern California, United States. It stretches from the eastern San Francisco Bay area at its northern end to the Salinas Valley area at its southern end.
The San Ramon Valley is a valley and region in Contra Costa County and Alameda County, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California.
Morgan Territory is an historic ranching area on the east side of Mount Diablo in San Francisco East Bay's Contra Costa County. It was named after Anglo-American pioneer Jeremiah Morgan, a migrant from Alabama and Iowa who acquired 2000 acres and developed a ranch here, starting in 1857.
Mercey Hot Springs is an unincorporated community and historical hot springs resort in the Little Panoche Valley of Fresno County, central California, about 60 miles (97 km) west-southwest of Fresno.
Evergreen, also known as Evergreen Valley, is a large district of San Jose, California, located in East San Jose.
The Panoche Hills are a low mountain range in the Southern Inner California Coast Ranges System, in western Fresno County, California.
Pueblo de las Juntas is a former settlement in Fresno County, California situated at the confluence of the San Joaquin River and Fresno Slough, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Mendota.
Hayes or Hayes Station is a former settlement in Fresno County, California. It was located 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Mendota, next to Silver Creek and slightly northeast of that waterway's junction with Panoche Creek. The Panoche road exit on I-5 lies about one mile ENE of the location.
Panoche Pass is a mountain pass within the Diablo Range in San Benito County, California connecting the southern extremity of the Santa Clara Valley in the west to the Panoche Valley and San Joaquin Valley in the east. The name Panoche Pass is used for the United States Geological Survey quadrangle map for the local area. County Route J1, also known as the Panoche Road, traverses the pass.
Rancho Panoche de San Juan y Los Carrisalitos was a 22,175-acre (89.74 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Merced County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Julian Ursua and Pedro Romo. The name means "raw sugar of San Juan and the little patches of reeds" in Spanish.
El Camino Viejo a Los Ángeles, also known as El Camino Viejo and the Old Los Angeles Trail, was the oldest north-south trail in the interior of Spanish colonial Las Californias (1769–1822) and Mexican Alta California (1822–1848), present day California. It became a well established inland route, and an alternative to the coastal El Camino Real trail used since the 1770s in the period.
Poso de Chane or Poso Chane is a former settlement in Fresno County, California situated around the waterhole of that name, northwest just below the confluence of the Jacalitos Creek with Los Gatos Creek, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Coalinga and northwest of the Guijarral Hills.
Ortigalita Creek, formerly Arroyo de Las Ortigalito is a tributary stream of the San Joaquin River, in Merced County, California. The source of Ortigalita Creek is at 3,520 ft (1,070 m) located near a peak on the Ortigalita Ridge of the Diablo Range. Its mouth is 7.2 mi (11.6 km) south southwest of Los Banos, California just as it emerges from the foothills before it reaches the California Aqueduct. Originally in years of heavy winter rainfall it may have reached the vicinity of the Mud Slough of the San Joaquin River.
Little Panoche Creek formerly known as Arroyita de Panoche or Arroyo de Pannochita and later anglicized to Panochita Creek is a creek in Fresno County, California. The source of this creek is on the east slope of Glaucophane Ridge, of the Diablo Range in San Benito County. It flows east-northeast through Little Panoche Reservoir to empty into the California Aqueduct. Before the advent of irrigation projects in the valley, its waters might have reached a slough of the San Joaquin River in years of heavy rains.
Cantua Creek, formerly in Spanish Arroyo de Cantúa, was named for José de Guadalupe Cantúa, a prominent Californio Ranchero in the 19th-century Mexican era of Alta California.
Panoche Creek is a creek in San Benito and Fresno Counties, California, in the United States.
The New Idria Mercury Mine encompasses 8,000 acres of land in the Diablo Mountain range, incorporating the town of Idria in San Benito County, California. Idria, initially named New Idria, is situated at 36°25′01″N120°40′24″W and 2440 feet (680m) above mean sea level. The area was, in the past, recorded in the US Census Bureau as a rural community; however, Idria has become a ghost town since the closing of once lucrative mining operations in the early 1970s.
La Vereda del Monte was a backcountry route through remote regions of the Diablo Range, one of the California Coast Ranges. La Vereda del Monte was the upper part of La Vereda Caballo,, used by mesteñeros from the early 1840s to drive Alta California horses to Sonora for sale.
Griswold Creek is a stream in San Benito County, California. Its head is at the confluence of Pimental Creek and Vallecitos Creek. From there it flows north-northeastward through the canyon between the Griswold Hills in the east, and Buck Peak in the Diablo Range on the west, to its mouth, located at an elevation of 1,145 feet (349 m) at its confluence with Panoche Creek 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast of Panoche in the Panoche Valley.
Ragged Valley is a valley, in the Diablo Range in Fresno County, California. It was named for the ragged appearance of its surface. It is bound on the east by the Big Blue Hills and on the west by Joaquin Ridge. It extends northwesterly from its large mouth at Domengine Creek to the divide between Salt Creek and Cantua Creek where it has its head at 36°21′42″N120°25′25″W.