Oak Ridge in
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259, as of the 2020 census. Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County together f ...
,
California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
, is a
ridge forming the east canyon wall of
Arroyo Hondo, which drains into
Calaveras Reservoir
Calaveras Reservoir is located primarily in Santa Clara County, California, with a small portion and its dam in Alameda County, California. In Spanish, Calaveras means "skulls".
The reservoir is fed mainly by Arroyo Hondo and Calaveras Cree ...
.
Black Mountain is its highest point. The first known
white settlers on Oak Ridge were the Parks family, who ran cattle on the ridge.
[Loomis, Patricia. ''Milpitas: A Century of Little Cornfields, 1852–1952''. Milpitas Local History Studies, vol. 30.] Now owned by the
San Francisco Water Department, the ridge is private property and is off-limits to most people.
See also
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Arroyo Hondo
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Milpitas, California
Milpitas ( Spanish for "little milpas") is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in Silicon Valley. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 80,273. The city's origins lie in Rancho Milpitas, granted to Californio ranchero José Marà ...
References
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Landforms of Santa Clara County, California
Milpitas, California
Ridges of California
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