Lexington Reservoir
Lexington Reservoir is an artificial lake on the Los Gatos Creek near Los Gatos, California. The James J. Lenihan Dam, a 195 ft high, 1,000 ft thick earthen dam, forms the third-largest reservoir in Santa Clara County.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include New Museum Los Gatos and Forbes Mill.
New Museum Los Gatos
Museum
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New Museum Los Gatos, formerly the Museums of Los Gatos founded in 1965, is a public non-profit art and history museum located in the Civic Center Plaza in downtown Los Gatos, California. NUMU has over 4000 visitors a year.
Forbes Mill
Museum
Photo: David Sawyer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Forbes Mill is a now-defunct flour mill originally built in 1854 located in Los Gatos, California, which served as the History Museum of Los Gatos after having been saved from destruction in 1982.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Los Gatos and Monte Sereno.
Los Gatos
Photo: Alexey Komarov, CC BY 3.0.
Los Gatos is a town of 30,000 people in Santa Clara County, near San Jose, California in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains. Downtown Los Gatos has retained and restored many of its Victorian-era homes and commercial buildings.
Monte Sereno
Village
Monte Sereno is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population was 3,479 at the 2020 census. The city is located in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, about 10 miles southwest of San Jose, and is bordered by the town of Los Gatos to the north, east, and south, the Santa Cruz Mountains to the southwest, and the city of Saratoga to the northwest. Monte Sereno is situated 2½ miles north of Lexington Reservoir.
Chemeketa Park
Hamlet
Chemeketa Park is an unincorporated community of approximately 150 homes located in Lexington Hills, in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Clara County, California, that is now effectively a rural neighborhood of Los Gatos, California. Chemeketa Park is situated 2½ miles south of Lexington Reservoir.
Lexington Reservoir
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: body of water
- Category: body of water
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Russian—“Lexington Reservoir” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lexington Reservoir”
- French: “Lexington Reservoir”
- Russian: “Лексингтонское водохранилище”
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