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.- Dam
- …lies at an elevation of 525 feet (160 metres)
- Description: dam in Near Jamestown, California
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melones and Copperopolis.
Melones
Hamlet
Melones is a former settlement in Calaveras County… Melones is situated 4½ miles north of New Melones Dam.
Copperopolis
Locality
Copperopolis is an unincorporated town and… Copperopolis is situated 5 miles west of New Melones Dam.
Jamestown
Jamestown is an unincorporated community in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
New Melones Dam
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Latitude
37.94867° or 37° 56′ 55″ north
Longitude
-120.52556° or 120° 31′ 32″ west
Open location code
849XWFXF+FQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- German: “New Melones Dam”
- Hebrew: “סכר ניו מלונס”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “New Melones-demningen”
- Norwegian: “New Melones-demningen”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС New Melones”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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Nearby Places
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Tuolumne County: Highlights
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