Crescent Crater

Crescent Crater is a volcano in Shasta County, Shasta Cascades, California and has an elevation of 8,045 feet. Crescent Crater is situated nearby to the locality Chaos Jumbles, as well as near Sunflower Flat.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lassen Peak and Hat Lake.

Lassen Peak

Volcano

Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lassen Peak, commonly referred to as Mount Lassen, is a 10,457-foot lava dome volcano in Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California. Located in the Shasta Cascade region above the northern Sacramento Valley, it is the southernmost active volcano…

Hat Lake

Lake

Photo: buzzard525, CC BY 3.0.

Chaos Crags

Volcano

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.

Chaos Crags is the youngest group of lava domes in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California. They formed as six dacite domes about 1,000 years ago, one dome collapsing during an explosive eruption about 70 years later.

Crescent Crater

Type: Volcano with an elevation of 8,045 feet
Category: landform
Location: Shasta County, Shasta Cascades, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.5052° or 40° 30′ 19″ north

Longitude

-121.495° or 121° 29′ 42″ west

Elevation

8,045 feet (2,452 metres)

Open location code

84GWGG44+32

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358796091

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=volcano

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Localities in the Area

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