The Sacramento Wash (California) is the drainage southward, then east from the Lanfair Valley of extreme eastern San Bernardino County, California. The drainage combines with the Piute Wash-(mostly of Nevada) at the south terminus of the Dead Mountains, and immediately enters the Colorado River, just north of Needles, California. Another Sacramento Wash occurs across the Colorado, as an eastern drainage from northwest Arizona, also at Needles, CA.
| Sacramento Wash (California) | |
|---|---|
  Sacramento Wash (California) in southeast California w/ Nevada | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Regions | Lanfair Valley (eastern)-Mojave Desert |
| County | San Bernardino County, California |
| Communities | Goffs, Cima &, Kelso, CA |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Length | 24 mi (39 km), N-S (drains from northwest) |
The Lanfair Valley and Sacramento Wash are at the eastern perimeter region of the Mojave National Preserve.
Geography
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The Sacramento Wash (California) is part of a 2-valley south-trending drainage system, shaped like a U; Piute Wash is the eastern part of the drainage; the Sacaramento Wash is the western. The Sacramento Wash turns eastward, combines with other bajada drainages from the west and south, and merges with the Piute Wash, to rapidly descend down from the foothills of the Dead Mountains to the western bank of the Colorado River.
The approximate center of the Sacramento Wash drainage is the center of Lanfair Valley, the Lanfair Buttes.[1]
See also
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edit- Lanfair Buttes, Lanfair Valley, approximate north-south center of valley drainage, topozone.com
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