The Chowchilla River is a river in central California, United States and a minor tributary of the San Joaquin River. It flows for 54.2 miles (87.2 km) from the western side of the Sierra Nevada Range to the San Joaquin River system in the San Joaquin Valley.[2]
Most of the lower half of the river forms the border between Merced and Madera County.
^ abcU.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Chowchilla River
^ abU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 11, 2011
The ChowchillaRiver is a river in central California, United States and a minor tributary of the San Joaquin River. It flows for 54.2 miles (87.2 km)...
On July 15, 1976, in Chowchilla, California, three armed men hijacked a school bus. They abducted the driver and 26 children, ages 5 to 14, and imprisoned...
only joined by the Fresno and ChowchillaRivers when they reach flood stage. Fifty miles (80 km) downstream, the Merced River empties into an otherwise dry...
of the Chowchilla Water District. The lake formed in 1975 (49 years ago) (1975) from the construction of Buchanan Dam across the ChowchillaRiver as a flood...
floodwater from the upstream San Joaquin River via Chowchilla Bypass Structure, near Mendota) ChowchillaRiver Fresno River Dry Creek Fresno Slough (also carries...
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Stanislaus River), Sasamu (almost due east), Shulaputi (southeast) The Southern Miwok inhabited the lower banks of the Merced River and the ChowchillaRiver, as...
Sacramento and Wheeler Ridge, in Merced County between the cities of Chowchilla and Atwater. On December 11, 2012, Caltrans commenced construction on...
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location was 35 miles (56 km) west of Yosemite National Park, on the ChowchillaRiver. Dam volume was 2,650,000 cubic yards (2,030,000 m3). A 10-kiloton...
Joaquin River north of Fresno. The canal runs north along the eastern edge of the San Joaquin Valley, ending at the ChowchillaRiver east of Chowchilla. Average...
Madera Canal takes water northwards to Madera County, emptying into the ChowchillaRiver. The Central Valley also consisted of 500 miles of canals, providing...
1910 Concrete gravity 92 28 51,000 63,000 Eastman Lake Buchanan Dam ChowchillaRiver Madera and Mariposa United States Army Corps of Engineers 1975 Earth...
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to the Kings River and upper Kaweah Rivers and to the Tulare Valley. After arriving at the Kings River, scouts located a large Chowchilla village nearby...
(or Baley) Flats which lay at the conjunction of three forks of the ChowchillaRiver. The homestead was completely washed out in the floods of 1862/63,...
traditionally spanned from the Sierra Nevada foothills to the Fresno and ChowchillaRiver valleys and down to the Tehachapi Mountains. Today, many Chukchansi...
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