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San Francisquito Canyon
Canyon
San Francisquito Canyon is home to low-lying shrubs, dry grasses, and towering yucca that bloom during the spring.
San Francisquito Canyon is home to low-lying shrubs, dry grasses, and towering yucca that bloom during the spring.
San Francisquito Canyon is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
San Francisquito Canyon
San Francisquito Canyon
San Francisquito Canyon is located in California
San Francisquito Canyon
San Francisquito Canyon
Coordinates: 34°32′18″N 118°31′30″W / 34.53833°N 118.52500°W / 34.53833; -118.52500
LocationLos Angeles County, California, United States
RangeSierra Pelona Mountains
Formed bySan Francisquito Creek
Dimensions
 • Length19.5 mi (31.4 km)
Highest elevation3,655 feet (1,114 m)
(San Francisquito Pass)

San Francisquito Canyon is a canyon created through erosion of the Sierra Pelona Mountains by the San Francisquito Creek, in Los Angeles County, Southern California.[1]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: San Francisquito Canyon

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elevation 3,655 feet (1,114 m), is at the head of San Francisquito Canyon. San Francisquito Canyon Road, crossing over the Sierra Pelonas here, leads...

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include: San Francisquito Canyon of the Sierra Pelona Mountains, as well as on the northwestern side of the Devil's Punchbowl gorge in the San Gabriel Mountains...

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Los Angeles Aqueduct

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extremely difficult, almost straight up-and-down through San Fernando Pass, up San Francisquito Canyon, and over Tejon Pass. In 1856, Lieutenant Williamson...

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

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their Power Plant No. 1, a hydroelectric power plant located in San Francisquito Canyon powered by the Los Angeles Aqueduct, began generating electricity...

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William Mulholland

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water began moving down San Francisquito Canyon in a 140-foot-high (43 m) torrent at 18 miles per hour (29 km/h). In the canyon, it demolished the heavy...

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river. The St. Francis Dam was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in Los Angeles County, California, built from 1924 to 1926 to serve...

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Butterfield Overland Mail in California

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the San Fernando Valley, with a stop at Rancho Los Encinos. It proceeded over Fremont Pass out of the Valley, up San Francisquito Canyon and over San Francisquito...

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Templin Highway

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plan shows it extending to San Francisquito Canyon Road as an expressway, and by 1975 it was to connect with Spunky Canyon Road near the Bouquet Reservoir...

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Gold mining in the United States

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Placer gold deposits were found at San Ysidro in San Diego County in 1828, San Francisquito Canyon and Placerita Canyon in Los Angeles County in 1835 and...

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drainage; and San Francisquito Canyon (used by the Tejon Pass Route) was steep and narrow. Another possible route, through Piru Canyon to the west, was...

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Pérez Pacheco, noted Californio ranchero and owner of the Rancho Ausaymas y San Felipe. In the 1850s, an informal variant name for the pass was Robber's...

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homelands. The San Francisquito Canyon, which runs north-south through the mountains, served as a major wagon route between the Antelope and San Fernando Valleys...

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part of the fault was Clemens Well-Fenner-San Francisquito fault zone around 22–13 Ma. This system added the San Gabriel Fault as a primary focus of movement...

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Copper Fire

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medium-heavy brush in steep, inaccessible drainages—primarily in San Francisquito Canyon—among the Sierra Pelona mountains of the Transverse Ranges north...

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Frederick Eaton

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designing and building the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a section of San Francisquito Canyon located north of the present day Santa Clarita Valley, and built...

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