Lake Oroville
Lake Oroville is a reservoir formed by the Oroville Dam impounding the Feather River, located in Butte County, northern California. The lake is situated 5 miles northeast of the city of Oroville, within the Lake Oroville State Recreation Area, in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoir in California
- Also known as: “Lake Edmonston”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oroville Dam.
Oroville Dam
Dam
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Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of the Sacramento Valley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oroville and Oregon City.
Oroville
Oroville is a small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. With a population in the greater urban area of 40,000, it is the seat of Butte County.
Oregon City
Hamlet
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Oregon City, formerly Bloomingdale and Hengy, is a ghost town located between Oroville and Cherokee in Butte County, California. One of the first mining camps in the county, it was established in the autumn of 1848 by a party of Oregonians, who came to California over the Applegate and Lassen trails. Oregon City is situated 4½ miles northwest of Lake Oroville.
Wyandotte
Hamlet
Wyandotte is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California. It is located 6 miles northwest of Bangor, at an elevation of 669 feet. A post office operated at Wyandotte from 1859 to 1867 and from 1880 to 1915. Wyandotte is situated 6 miles south of Lake Oroville.
Lake Oroville
- Category: body of water
- Location: Butte County, Shasta Cascades, California, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bhojpuri to Welsh—“Lake Oroville” goes by many names.
- Bhojpuri: “ओरोविले झील”
- Bhojpuri: “लेक ओरोविले”
- Catalan: “Oroville Reservoir”
- Chinese: “奧羅維爾湖”
- Dutch: “Lake Oroville”
- French: “Lac d’Oroville”
- French: “lac Oroville”
- Italian: “lago Oroville”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Oroville”
- Polish: “Lake Oroville”
- Russian: “Оровилл”
- Swedish: “Oroville dammen”
- Welsh: “Llyn Oroville”
- “ओरोविले झील”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Oroville East and South Oroville.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Oroville 1-048 Dam and Kelly Ridge Golf Course.
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