by CoastView | Jan 2, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Scammon Bay is a small community at the base of the Askinuk Mountains, on the left bank and about 1 mile (1.6 km) upstream from the mouth of the Kun River in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, about 147 miles (237 km) northwest of Bethel and 73 miles (118 km) southwest of...
by CoastView | Dec 21, 2022 | 2022, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Ocean Roar is a small group of buildings at the mouth of Walker Creek on Tomales Bay, and formerly a community on the North Pacific Coast Railroad, about 2.3 miles (3.7 km) southwest of Tomales and 16 miles (26 km) west of Petaluma, California. Walker Creek originates...
by CoastView | Dec 14, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Estero de San Antonio is a small coastal lagoon formed by a sand bar that dams Stemple Creek, a stream that starts in the hills of Marin and Sonoma Counties and flows generally west to Bodega Bay near the mouth of Tomales Bay, 5.75 miles (9 km) southeast of the...
by CoastView | Dec 13, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Redoubt Volcano has a summit elevation of 10,197 feet (3,109 m) in the Aleutian Range on the Alaska Peninsula, and is located between the Drift River to the north and Crescent River to the south, about 9 miles (14.5 km) northeast of Crescent Lake and 52 miles (84 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 3, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Skeena City is an abandoned community on the north shore of the Skeena River, at the mouth of the Khyex River, 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Prince Rupert, and 52 miles (84 km) southwest of Terrace, British Columbia. In 1908, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway...
by CoastView | Nov 30, 2022 | 2022, California, Communities, Rivers
Big River flows for 42 miles (68 km) through the northern California Coast Range starting at an elevation of approximately 2,800 feet (865 m), draining a watershed of 181 square miles (46,880 ha) and entering the Pacific Ocean at Mendocino, California. From the river...
