Feather Falls
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Feather Falls is a waterfall in California, at a modelled elevation of 459 m. Red Mountain stands 1,935 m to the north-northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Bald Rock Dome, a peak 2.1 miles away.
The story
Feather Falls is a waterfall located on the Fall River, a tributary of the Middle Fork Feather River, within the Plumas National Forest in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Butte County, eastern California, United States.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q3305706, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Height
- 124.968 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Bald Rock Dome: 2.1 mi
- Swain Hill: 2.6 mi
- Little Bald Rock: 3.1 mi
- Pompys Point: 3.8 mi
- Big Bald Rock: 3.8 mi
- Sycamore Creek Recreation Area: 8.5 mi
- Craig Recreation Area: 9.2 mi
- Foreman Creek Recreation Area: 10.7 mi
- Lake Oroville State Recreation Area: 11.1 mi
- Goat Ranch Recreation Area: 12.0 mi
- Curtain Falls: 2.1 mi
- Hollow Falls: 15.2 mi
- Little Hollow Falls: 15.2 mi
- Schirmer Cascade: 15.2 mi
- Schirmer Falls: 15.3 mi
- Marble Cone: 12.2 mi
- Cape Horn: 15.9 mi
- Elephant Butte: 16.8 mi
- Rocky Point: 19.9 mi
- Granite Point: 20.3 mi
- Frank C. Reilly Museum: 15.7 mi
- bath house museum: 16.9 mi
- Pioneer History Museum: 17.2 mi
- Butte County Historical Society Museum: 17.2 mi
- Oroville Chinese Temple: 17.7 mi
- Brush: 7.9 mi
- Bidwell's Bar: 10.7 mi
- Bloomer: 11.6 mi
- Hamilton: 23.4 mi
- Beatson Corral: 16.2 mi
- World Trade Center artifact: 20.1 mi
- World's First Long-Distance Telephone Line: 24.0 mi
- Downie Chapter 1249: 24.5 mi
- Sandy Point Day Use: 18.6 mi
- Convict Flat Picnic Site: 19.0 mi
- Paradise Lake Picnic Area: 21.5 mi
- Tin Cup Diggins Picnic Area: 24.5 mi
- North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve: 16.2 mi
- Oroville Wildlife Management Area: 22.1 mi
- Bucks Lake Wilderness: 22.3 mi
- Hespol Memorial Spring: 18.4 mi
- Jackies Orchard Spring: 24.2 mi
- Holden Spring: 24.9 mi
- Bridgeport Covered Bridge: 24.6 mi
- Purdon Crossing: 24.9 mi
- Collins Lake Beach: 21.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.8 miles of Feather Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Mountain | NNE 17° | 1,935 m | 14.2 mi |
| Table Mountain | NE 50° | 1,864 m | 13.8 mi |
| Frenchman Hill | N 7° | 1,805 m | 14.7 mi |
| Mount Ararat | NNE 32° | 1,781 m | 14.4 mi |
| Grizzly Summit | N 0° | 1,778 m | 14.8 mi |
| Lexington Hill | E 80° | 1,757 m | 14.3 mi |
| Franklin Hill | NE 45° | 1,743 m | 12.3 mi |
| Camel Peak | ENE 60° | 1,737 m | 10.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:09 | 18:42 | 19:17 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:56 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:53 | 18:28 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 16:02 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 41 | 41 | 43 | 47 | 55 | 62 | 69 | 68 | 64 | 55 | 46 | 40 |
| Precip in | 14.7 | 13.7 | 12.8 | 6.4 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 4.1 | 8.6 | 16.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Strawberry Valley 2, 10 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Jan–May — fullest in Feb, leanest in Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 134 | 196 | 190 | 126 | 109 | 37.2 | 13.9 | 13.1 | 15.8 | 24.8 | 18.0 | 73.8 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge SF Feather R BL Forbestown Dam CA, 7 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/1075827445
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