The Long Tom River is a tributary of the
Willamette River
The Willamette River ( ) is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Flowing northward b ...
in western
Oregon
Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...
in the United States.
It drains an area at the south end of the
Willamette Valley
The Willamette Valley ( ) is a long valley in Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The Willamette River flows the entire length of the valley and is surrounded by mountains on three sides: the Cascade Range to the east, ...
between
Eugene and
Corvallis.
It rises in the
Central Oregon Coast Range
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in western
Lane County, approximately 10 mi (16 km) west of
Veneta. It flows east through the mountains to Veneta, through the
Fern Ridge Reservoir
Fern Ridge Reservoir (or Fern Ridge Lake) is a reservoir on the Long Tom River in the U.S. state of Oregon. The reservoir is located approximately west of Eugene on Oregon Route 126. The reservoir is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood control ...
, and then north into the Willamette Valley, roughly parallel to and west of the Willamette River. It joins the Willamette from the southwest approximately 4 mi (6.5 km) west of
Halsey. The Fern Ridge Reservoir was created in 1942 when the
dammed the river to control flooding.
The watershed includes approximately of land (262,000 acres, 1060 km
2) zoned as 45 percent forest, 30 percent agricultural, 8 public, and 17 percent urban or rural residential.
The Long Tom waters support more than 140,000 people in the area, including residents in the city of Veneta and the rural farming communities of
Alvadore,
Cheshire
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,
Crow
A crow is a bird of the genus ''Corvus'', or more broadly a synonym for all of ''Corvus''. Crows are generally black in colour. The word "crow" is used as part of the common name of many species. The related term "raven" is not pinned scientifical ...
,
Franklin
Franklin may refer to:
People
* Franklin (given name)
* Franklin (surname)
* Franklin (class), a member of a historical English social class
Places Australia
* Franklin, Tasmania, a township
* Division of Franklin, federal electoral d ...
, and
Noti Noti may refer to:
* Noti, Oregon, a settlement in the US
* Notia, a village in Greece
* NotI, an enzyme
* Károly Nóti (1892–1954), Hungarian screenwriter
See also
* Notti (disambiguation)