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LMUD Presents: This Day in Susanville History – January 23, 1951

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Flooded highway near Litchfield in 1940 from the Eastman Collection at UC Davis

Bridge Damaged by Baxter Creek
January 23, 1951

Baxter Creek flooded Monday afternoon and washed out a bridge on the county road in Honey Lake Valley, south from Missouri Bend school.

A veteran rancher in the area said it is the greatest runoff in 25 years. He said the static water level in a well, normally nine feet, now has risen to 39 inches.

Water was receding today beyond flood waters were running a quarter of a mile wide over fields in the area Tuesday, but no crop damage is believed to have been done.

 

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