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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaw_Valley_Reservoir Squaw Valley Reservoir] (Wikipedia) | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaw_Valley_Reservoir Squaw Valley Reservoir] (Wikipedia) | ||
* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:277626074025290::NO::P3_FID:863350 GNIS] | * [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:277626074025290::NO::P3_FID:863350 GNIS] | ||
* [ | * The first map to show Squaw Valley is Granite Range 1:250,000 (1894, Rp. 1894)] (UNR) | ||
* The last map to show Squaw Valley Reservoir is [https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#13/40.8390/-119.5576 Gerlach 1:100,000 (1981, Rp. 1981)] | |||
* Renee Corona Kolvet, Victoria Ford, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=Jb7TpOojyRMC&lpg=PA68&ots=C5402N30Br&dq=Chadwell%20Claude%20nevada&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q=Chadwell%20Claude%20nevada&f=false The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men]," Description of a CCC camp in Gerlach by Claude Chadwell. "Fisk Reservoir <nowiki>[Squaw Creek Reservoir]</nowiki> is still there" | * Renee Corona Kolvet, Victoria Ford, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=Jb7TpOojyRMC&lpg=PA68&ots=C5402N30Br&dq=Chadwell%20Claude%20nevada&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q=Chadwell%20Claude%20nevada&f=false The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men]," Description of a CCC camp in Gerlach by Claude Chadwell. "Fisk Reservoir <nowiki>[Squaw Creek Reservoir]</nowiki> is still there" | ||
* [[Geophysical Investigations of the Smoke Creek Desert and their Geologic Implications, Northwest Nevada and Northeast California]] | * [[Geophysical Investigations of the Smoke Creek Desert and their Geologic Implications, Northwest Nevada and Northeast California]] | ||
Revision as of 01:11, 19 December 2021
- Note: U.S. Department of the Interior Secretarial Order 3404 dated November 19, 2021 has declared "Squaw" a derogatory term and is implementing procedures to change the name. Details are at U.S. Board on Geographic Names. See also the monthly minutes and review lists.
Squaw Reservoir is located on Highway 447 about 17 miles North West of Gerlach, on the way to Cedarville. It was formerly known as Fisk Reservoir.
It was worked on and possibly built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
References
- Squaw Valley Reservoir (Wikipedia)
- GNIS
- The first map to show Squaw Valley is Granite Range 1:250,000 (1894, Rp. 1894)] (UNR)
- The last map to show Squaw Valley Reservoir is Gerlach 1:100,000 (1981, Rp. 1981)
- Renee Corona Kolvet, Victoria Ford, "The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men," Description of a CCC camp in Gerlach by Claude Chadwell. "Fisk Reservoir [Squaw Creek Reservoir] is still there"
- Geophysical Investigations of the Smoke Creek Desert and their Geologic Implications, Northwest Nevada and Northeast California