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Fine Gold, California
Fine Gold Creek, in Fine Gold Gulch, is a creek in a gulch in Madera County, California that is a river tributary of the San Joaquin River. It is approximately from its mouth on the San Joaquin through where it has two forks to its headwaters. Like Coarse Gold Gulch in the same county and many other places in California, its name derives simply from the practice of gold mining. Course and tributaries The mouth of Fine Gold itself is roughly north-east of where Fort Miller used to be (which is now under Millerton Lake). The headwaters of the main Creek are on the south slope of Thornberry Mountain at above sea level, and its course downstream is overall in a south-westwards direction to the San Joaquin with a fall of along its length downstream of its tributaries. * Its major permanent tributaries are: ** Little Fine Gold Creek — a fork whose headwaters are on the western slope of Goat Mountain, with a fall of along its length and flowing south-eastwards f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |