Big Butte Creek is a 12-mile (19 km) long
tributary of the
Rogue River located in the
U.S. state of
Oregon. It
drains approximately 245 square miles (630 km2) of
Jackson County. The north fork of the creek begins on Rustler Peak and the south fork's headwaters are near
Mount McLoughlin. They meet near
Butte Falls, and Big Butte Creek flows generally northwest until it empties into the Rogue River about 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of
Lost Creek Dam (William L. Jess Dam). Big Butte Creek's watershed was originally settled over 8,000 years ago by the
Klamath,
Upper Umpqua, and
Takelma tribes of
Native Americans. In the
Rogue River Wars of the 1850s, most of the Native Americans were either killed or forced into
Indian reservations. The first non-
indigenous settlers arrived in the 1860s, and the area was quickly developed. The creek was named after Snowy Butte, an early name for
Mount McLoughlin. In the late 19th century, the watershed was primarily used for agriculture and logging. The small city of
Butte Falls was
incorporated in 1911. (
more...)
Russian scientists reportedly reach Lake Vostok, a body of water isolated under the
Antarctic ice shield, after drilling a borehole 12,362 feet (3,768 m) deep.
1906 – The
Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought(pictured) was launched, representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an
entire generation of battleships.
1962 – "Rudolf Abel", a Soviet spy arrested by the
FBI, was exchanged for
Gary Powers, the pilot of the
CIA spy plane that had been
shot down over Soviet airspace two years earlier.
A male Dendropsophus microcephalusfrog, displaying its
vocal sac—membranes of skin under the throat or on the corner of the mouth that distend to amplify its call. The species lives in moist areas in most of Central America and northern South America.
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