Lexington Reservoir

Lexington Reservoir is an artificial lake on the Los Gatos Creek near . The James J. Lenihan Dam, a 195 ft high, 1,000 ft thick earthen dam, forms the third-largest reservoir in Santa Clara County.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include New Museum Los Gatos and Forbes Mill.

Museum
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, 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 . NUMU has over 4000 visitors a year.

Museum
Photo: David Sawyer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a now-defunct flour mill originally built in 1854 located in , which served as the History Museum of Los Gatos after having been saved from destruction in 1982.

Library
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Los Gatos and Monte Sereno.

Photo: Alexey Komarov, CC BY 3.0.
is a town of 30,000 people in , near , in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains. Downtown has retained and restored many of its Victorian-era homes and commercial buildings.

Village
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is a city in , United States. The population was 3,479 at the 2020 census. The city is located in the foothills of the , about 10 miles southwest of , and is bordered by the town of to the north, east, and south, the Santa Cruz Mountains to the southwest, and the city of to the northwest. is situated 2½ miles north of Lexington Reservoir.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community of approximately 150 homes located in , in the in , that is now effectively a rural neighborhood of . is situated 2½ miles south of Lexington Reservoir.

Lexington Reservoir

Latitude
37.20133° or 37° 12′ 5″ north
Longitude
-121.98885° or 121° 59′ 20″ west
Elevation
663 feet (202 metres)
Open location code
849W6226+GF
Geo­Names ID
5366109
Wiki­data ID
Q6537857
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Lexington Reservoir” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Lexington Reservoir”
  • French: “Lexington Reservoir”
  • Russian: “Лексингтонское водохранилище”
  • Vietnamese: “hồ chứa Lexington”
  • Vietnamese: “hồ Lexington”

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