New Melones Dam
New Melones Dam is an earth and rock filled embankment dam on the Stanislaus River, about 5 miles west of Jamestown, California, United States, on the border of Calaveras County and Tuolumne County.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melones and Copperopolis.
Melones
Hamlet
Melones is a former settlement in Calaveras County, California, now submerged beneath a reservoir named New Melones Lake. It lay at an elevation of 955 feet. Melones is situated 4½ miles north of New Melones Dam.
Copperopolis
Locality
Copperopolis is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Calaveras County, California, United States. The population was 3,400 at the 2020 census, down from 3,671 at the 2010 census. Copperopolis is situated 5 miles west of New Melones Dam.
Jamestown
Jamestown is an unincorporated community in Tuolumne County, California, United States. Formerly a California Gold Rush town, Jamestown was designated a California Historical Landmark on March 16, 1949.
New Melones Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Near Jamestown, California
- Categories: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Tuolumne County, Gold Country, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.94867° or 37° 56′ 55″ northLongitude
-120.52556° or 120° 31′ 32″ westElevation
525 feet (160 metres)Open location code
849XWFXF+FQOpenStreetMap ID
way 673901250OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“New Melones Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “New Melones Dam (alihan sa tubig sa Estados Unidos, lat 37,95, long -120,53)”
- Cebuano: “New Melones Dam”
- Dutch: “New Melones Dam”
- French: “barrage de New Melones”
- French: “Barrage de New Melones”
- German: “New Melones Dam”
- Hebrew: “סכר ניו מלונס”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “New Melones-demningen”
- Norwegian: “New Melones-demningen”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС New Melones”
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