Feather River
The Feather River is a river in Northern California in the United States. It is a tributary of the Sacramento River. The river originates in the Sierra Nevada mountains and is 114 kilometres (71 miles) long, flowing in a general southward direction.
| Feather River | |
|---|---|
| Mouth | Sacramento River |
| Length | 73 mi (117 km), North-south[1] |
| Mouth elevation | 26 ft (7.9 m)[2] |
| River system | Sacramento River Basin |
The river is an important source of drinking and irrigation water for California. The Oroville Dam is located on the river, near the city of Oroville.
Tributaries
Feather River Media
Buzzard Springs, partial source of the North Fork Feather River, near Rice Creek and with Lassen Peak in the background
Frazier Creek Falls in Plumas National Forest is part of the Middle Fork watershed
Aerial view of the region of the confluence of the Feather and Yuba rivers at Marysville and Yuba City
Related pages
References
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 10, 2011
- ↑ "Feather River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 1981-01-19. Retrieved 2010-10-23.
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