Emergency Spillway
Emergency Spillway is a weir in Butte County, Shasta Cascades, California. Emergency Spillway is situated nearby to the canal Flood Control Spillway, as well as near the park Potters Ravine Recreation Area.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Oroville Dam.
Oroville Dam
Dam
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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. Oroville Dam is situated 4,100 feet southeast of Emergency Spillway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oregon City and Oroville.
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 4 miles northwest of Emergency Spillway.
Oroville
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 Emergency Spillway.
Emergency Spillway
- Type: Weir (intermittent)
- Also known as: “Auxiliary Spillway”
- Location: Butte County, Shasta Cascades, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.54516° or 39° 32′ 43″ northLongitude
-121.49523° or 121° 29′ 43″ westOpen location code
84FWGGW3+3WOpenStreetMap ID
way 474336253OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=weirOpenStreetMap attribute
intermittent=yes
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