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on Bully Creek 19 miles (31 km) west of Vale on
February 5, 1925. The Jordan damn was cheaply built only 2 years prior for irrigation purposes by investors who wanted to plant wineries in the Willowcreek Valley. The builders used the naturally found shale rock in the concrete mix leading to the
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ranges from 9 to 23 inches (229 to 584 mm), with an average of 12 inches (305 mm). The highest elevation in the watershed is 6,447 feet (1,965 m) at
Juniper Mountain, while the lowest is 2,244 feet (684 m) at the creek's mouth.
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The first humans arrived in the Bully Creek watershed about 13,000 years ago. The
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Bully Creek drains 601 square miles (1,557 km) of
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960:"Irrigation Dam Bursts Flooding Part Of Oregon"
866:"Bully Creek Watershed Assessment and Strategy"
59:Location of the mouth of Bully Creek in Oregon
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795:"USGS 13227000 Bully Creek Near Vale, Oreg"
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991:Categories
879:August 16,
730:2021-11-01
633:References
520:. Several
514:Cottonwood
495:bald eagle
492:threatened
488:anadromous
439:ecoregions
404:Highway 20
400:river mile
376:headwaters
348:U.S. state
297:river mile
271:Basin size
225:43°58′30″N
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111:Sheep Rock
901:TopoQuest
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502:Sagebrush
468:mule deer
445:climate.
422:Watershed
283:Discharge
584:See also
516:grow in
484:raccoons
434:and the
392:Westfall
380:Ironside
209:, Oregon
128:, Oregon
68:Location
536:History
476:beavers
472:bobcats
93:Malheur
73:Country
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829:ISBN
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