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    The Mojave Forks Dam, most often known as the Mojave River Dam, is an earth-fill dry dam across the Mojave River in San Bernardino County, California in...
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    Fork, forming the Mojave River mainstem immediately upstream of the Mojave Forks Dam, which provides flood control. Downstream of the dam, the Mojave...
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    is located 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Hesperia, directly behind Mojave Forks Dam, a flood-control structure built in 1974. The Deep Creek drainage basin...
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    San Bernardino Mountains (category Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert)
    Completed in 1999, the dam is designed to completely contain a 350-year flood. Many other dams, including Mojave Forks Dam on the Mojave River and various...
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    County, California, United States, located on the West Fork Mojave River, a tributary of the Mojave River in the San Bernardino Mountains. It was created...
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    of Bullhead City, Arizona), to Fork of the Road location along the north bank of the Mojave River where the old Mojave Road split off from the route of...
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  • earthquake Ah Pah Dam (defunct) Auburn Dam (defunct) Centennial Dam Sites Reservoir Temperance Flat Dam California State Water Project List of dam removals in...
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  • Springs Dam in 1971. The Mohave Trail from the Colorado River crossed the Mojave Desert, then followed the Mojave River, and West Fork Mojave River up...
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    badly wounded in an 1827 attack by Mohave people during the crossing of the Mojave Desert. Virgin recovered from his wounds but was later killed, along with...
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    Lake Havasu (category Lakes of the Mojave Desert)
    aqueducts. Prior to the dam construction, the area was home to the Mojave people. The lake was named (in 1939) after the Mojave word for blue. In the early...
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    Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed...
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    Wild Wash Buckthorn Wash Fremont Wash West Fork Mojave River Grass Valley Creek East Fork West Fork Mojave River Deep Creek Kinley Creek Willow Creek...
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    proposed San Gabriel River dam, known as "Forks Dam" or "Twin Forks" due to its location at the river's East and West Forks, was to be 425 feet (130 m)...
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    Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States, located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the city of Page...
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    used this route in 1844.: 261–264  The fork of the trails there on the Mojave River, later became known as Fork of the Road. One last modification to this...
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    Lake Mead (category Lakes of the Mojave Desert)
    Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States. It is located in the states of Nevada and Arizona...
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    are a vital source of water for 40 million people. An extensive system of dams, reservoirs, and aqueducts divert almost its entire flow for agricultural...
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    two forks in northwestern Colorado in northeastern Garfield County in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area in the White River National Forest. The North Fork rises...
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    at State Route 18 south of Lake Arrowhead. The route starts at the Mojave River Forks, skims the easterly and southerly sides of Lake Arrowhead and meets...
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    Joshua Tree National Park (category Protected areas of the Mojave Desert)
    Springs. It is named after the Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) native to the Mojave Desert. Originally declared a national monument in 1936, Joshua Tree was...
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    Sierra Nevada, the fertile farmlands of the Central Valley, and the arid Mojave Desert of the south are some of the geographic features of this U.S. state...
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    Parker Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam that crosses the Colorado River 155 miles (249 km) downstream of Hoover Dam. Built between 1934 and 1938 by the...
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    Davis Dam is a dam on the Colorado River about 70 miles (110 km) downstream from Hoover Dam. It stretches across the border between Arizona and Nevada...
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    border in Lake Mead and the Arizona–California border a few miles below Davis Dam between Laughlin, Nevada and Needles, California before entering Mexico in...
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    San Gabriel Mountains (category Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert)
    of the Transverse Ranges and lies between the Los Angeles Basin and the Mojave Desert, with Interstate 5 to the west and Interstate 15 to the east. The...
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    negotiations over the controversial damming of the Green River within Dinosaur National Monument at Echo Park; the Echo Park Dam proposal was abandoned due to...
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    would be acquiring a carrier-based variant of the MQ-9, the General Atomics Mojave, for seven months of trials aboard its Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers...
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    Havasu-Mojave Lakes Watershed of Lake Havasu. The Senator Wash flows eastward from California into the reservoir. The Wash is blocked by Senator Wash Dam to...
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    distance downstream. The Middle Fork is considered the largest of the 3 forks. From the mountainous alpine headwaters, the San Joaquin flows generally...
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  • Thumbnail for Risks to the Glen Canyon Dam
    Glen Canyon Dam, a concrete arch dam on the Colorado River in the American state of Arizona, is viewed as carrying a large amount of risk, most notably...
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