Laguna Lake (California)

Laguna Lake
Location Sonoma and Marin counties, California
Lake type intermittent lake
Primary outflows Chileno Creek
Basin countries United States
Max. length 6 miles (10 km)[1]
Max. width 2 miles (3 km)[1]
Surface elevation 226 ft (69 m)[2]
Settlements Petaluma, California
References [2]

Laguna Lake is a natural intermittent lake 2 miles (3 km) wide and 6 miles (10 km) long, straddling the Sonoma-Marin county line in northern California, U.S.A.[1]

It was included in the Rancho Laguna de San Antonio Mexican land grant,[3] a land grant to Bartolomé Bojorquez in 1845.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Quill Driver Books. pp. 650. ISBN 1884995144. 
  2. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Laguna Lake
  3. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Laguna De San Antonio
  4. ^ "Plat of the Rancho Laguna de San Antonio". http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb2z09n80d. Retrieved 2009-02-03. 

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