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unusual facts about Santa Clara River


Santa Clara River

Carmen River, a river in Mexico that is sometimes called the Santa Clara River


Bouquet Canyon, California

Bouquet Canyon is one of many canyons branching from the Santa Clarita Valley in Los Angeles County, whose streams feed the Santa Clara River.

Climate of Salt Lake City

In late January, heavy rains overflowed the Santa Clara River in Washington County in the southwest corner of the state, destroying several homes in Ivins, Santa Clara, and Saint George, and essentially cutting off the small town of Gunlock.

Colonia, Oxnard, California

The rancho, which was commonly spoken of, or was in the rancho days, as the Colonia, extended from the Santa Clara River south to the present day Point Mugu Naval Air Station, or to the boundary of Rancho Guadalasca, and east from the Pacific Ocean to the present day 101 Freeway, or to the boundary of Rancho Santa Clara del Norte.

Santa Ana sucker

The Catostomus santaanae range is extremely restricted; they are native only to the Los Angeles, San Gabriel, Santa Ana, and Santa Clara River systems in Southern California.

Santa Paula Airport

One year later the Santa Clara Valley flooded following the collapse of the St. Francis Dam, taking many lives and destroying acres of property along the Santa Clara River where the ranch was built.

Virgin spinedace

Populations are known at various locations in the Virgin River system, including the North Fork and East Fork of the Virgin River in Zion National Park, the Santa Clara River, Beaver Dam Creek, and Ash Creek.


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Rancho Sespe

Settlers, or squatters as they were also called, began to arrive in the Santa Clara River Valley seeking public lands during the mid to late 1860s, following the American Civil War.

St. Francis Dam

The Santa Clara River Protective Association employed the geologist and Stanford University professor emeritus, Dr. Bailey Willis, and eminent San Francisco Civil Engineer and past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Carl E. Grunsky.