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13 unusual facts about Clear Lake


California State Route 20

Its west end is at SR 1 in Fort Bragg, from where it heads east past Clear Lake, Colusa, Yuba City, Marysville, and Nevada City to I-80 near Emigrant Gap, where eastbound traffic can continue on other routes to Lake Tahoe or Nevada.

By the end of the 1910s, a passable dirt and gravel road connected Ukiah and Nevada City via the south side of Clear Lake and Marysville.

This road was extended through the state highway system all the way to Ukiah in the early twentieth century, and the missing link near Clear Lake was completed in 1932 before the official designation of this highway as SR 20 in 1934.

Carl S. Bates

Carl Sterling Bates (January 1, 1884 - August 27, 1956) was an aviation pioneer from Clear Lake, Iowa.

Clear Lake, Wisconsin

Gaylord A. Nelson - Former Wisconsin Governor and United States Senator, Founder of Earth Day

Early Birds of Aviation

In 1912 he flew his Curtiss-type biplane from the prairie between Mason City, Iowa and Clear Lake, Iowa.

Hector International Airport

The airplane crashed shortly after takeoff from Clear Lake, Iowa, killing the 3 musicians and the pilot.

Linguistic areas of the Americas

This is clearly a linguistic area, and is centered around Clear Lake, California.

Music of Iowa

The town of Clear Lake is known as the place the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens took off from on the day they died; their last performance was at the Surf Ballroom.

Niki Sullivan

Over the years, he gave numerous interviews about his life with the Crickets and played at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, where Holly had given his last concert.

The Waylors

After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly chartered a plane for himself, Allsup and Jennings to avoid a long bus trip to Fargo, North Dakota.

Wasagaming, Manitoba

The town-site lies on the south shores of Clear Lake, the largest lake in Riding Mountain National Park.

Waterloo State Recreation Area

Crooked Lake, Clear Lake, Little Portage Lake, Mill Lake, Sugarloaf Lake, Doyle Lake, Merkle Lake, Mud Lake, and the Winnewana Impoundment are among the eleven bodies of water found in the park.


American Airlines Flight 320

The accident took place on the same day that a plane carrying Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all three singers.

Carol Coletta

Her paper on the Future of Cities, produced for the University of Houston–Clear Lake’s Future Studies program, was selected for presentation to the World Future Society annual meeting.

Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake

The Bloody Island Massacre or Bonopoti occurred in 1850, on "Old Island", at the north end of Clear Lake.

Minnesota State Highway 24

Minnesota State Highway 24 is a highway in central Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with U.S. Highway 12 and State Highway 22 in Litchfield and continues northeast to its intersection with U.S. Highway 10 and Sherburne County Road 6 in Clear Lake.

State Highway 24 serves as a northeast–southwest route in central Minnesota between Litchfield, Kimball, Annandale, Clearwater, and Clear Lake.

WLKI

WLKI's primary service area includes the cities of Angola, Fremont, Clear Lake, Orland, and Waterloo in Indiana, Coldwater, Bronson and Camden in Michigan, and Edon, Ohio.