Chetco River
The Chetco River is a 56-mile-long stream located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Oregon. The river descends rapidly from about 3,200 feet to sea level at the Pacific Ocean. The upper 45 miles of the river have been designated Wild and Scenic since 1988. Native Americans have lived in the river’s watershed for the last one to three thousand years.
About Chetco River in brief
The Chetco River is a 56-mile-long stream located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Oregon. It drains approximately 352 square miles of Curry County. The river descends rapidly from about 3,200 feet to sea level at the Pacific Ocean. The upper 45 miles of the river have been designated Wild and Scenic since 1988. Native Americans have lived in the river’s watershed for the last one to three thousand years. The watershed is home to over 200 species of animals, and 97 percent of the watershed is forested. The maximum recorded flow was 85,400 cubic feet per second on December 22, 1964, during the Pacific Northwest flood of 1964. Fourteen thousand residents of Brookings and Harbor rely on the Chet co for drinking water. The region is mostly mountainous, characterized by steep valleys, and Precipitation between 45 and 140 inches at the summit of Pearsoll Peak, the highest point in the watershed. About 78 percent is owned by the United States Forest Service, and 5 percent by the Bureau of Land Management. Sixteen percent is privately owned, while the remaining one percent is managed by the cities of Brookings, Curry County, and Harbor, Oregon, and the state of Washington. It is located entirely within the Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest and the Kalmiopsis Wilderness. It flows between Bosley Butte to the north and Mount Emily to the south; the latter is the impact site of one of only four bombs known to have been dropped in the continental United States by an enemy aircraft during the Lookout Air Raids of 1942.
The average flow was 2,263 cubic feet a second from a drainage area of 271 square miles, about 77 percent of the CheTco’s total drainage basin. In total, the river is hometo over 200 species of animals. The northernmost grove of Redwoods—the tallest trees on Earth—grow in the southern region of theChetco’s drainage basin, and it is the home to several species that are endemic to the Sisk iyou Mountains area. The highest point is 5,098-foot-tall Pearsol Peak, which is located at the junction of the Oregon Coast Range and the Klamath Mountains, about 4 miles east of Chet Co Peak. The ChetCo becomes an estuary about 1. 7 miles from its mouth. It passes through the communities of Brookings to the. north and Harbor to the South, and discharges into the Pacific. Ocean about 6 miles north of the California state line, and emptying into the ocean between Brookings and. Harbor, about 6. miles east of the state line. It has a maximum flow of 85,400 cubic feet perSecond on December 22, 1964. The minimum flow was 42 cubic feet per second on October 14, 1987, during a flood of October 14, 1987. It’s located in a rugged and isolated coastal region, and flows generally north, west, and then southwest, before draining into the sea.
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