Oroville Dam
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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
Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Oroville Dam.
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 Oroville Dam.
Oroville Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: earthfill embankment dam in Oroville, California
- Category: embankment dam
- Location: Butte County, Shasta Cascades, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.53735° or 39° 32′ 15″ northLongitude
-121.48471° or 121° 29′ 5″ westElevation
938 feet (286 metres)Open location code
84FWGGP8+W4OpenStreetMap ID
way 474271033OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Oroville Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد أوروفيل”
- Belarusian: “Оравілская плаціна”
- Catalan: “presa d’Oroville”
- Catalan: “Presa d’Oroville”
- Cebuano: “Oroville Dam”
- Chinese: “奥罗维尔坝”
- Chinese: “奧羅維爾壩”
- Chinese: “奧羅維爾水壩”
- Czech: “Oroville”
- Dutch: “Oroville Dam”
- Estonian: “Oroville’i pais”
- Finnish: “Orovillen pato”
- French: “barrage d’Oroville”
- French: “Barrage d’Oroville”
- French: “Barrage dOroville”
- German: “Oroville Dam”
- German: “Oroville-Staudamm”
- Hebrew: “סכר אורוויל”
- Italian: “diga di Oroville”
- Italian: “Diga di Oroville”
- Japanese: “オーロビル・ダム”
- Japanese: “オーロビルダム”
- Kazakh: “Оровилл бөгеті”
- Malayalam: “Oroville Dam”
- Malayalam: “ഒറിവില്ലെ അണക്കെട്ട്”
- Malayalam: “ഒറൊവിൽ അണക്കെട്ട്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oroville-demningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Orovilledemningen”
- Norwegian: “Orovilledemningen”
- Persian: “Oroville سد”
- Persian: “سد اوروویل”
- Russian: “Оровиллская плотина”
- Scots: “Oroville Dam”
- Spanish: “Presa de Oroville”
- Swedish: “Orovilledammen”
- Ukrainian: “Гребля Оровілл”
Localities in the Area
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