Places: CA-Converse Basin

Converse Basin-6,302' (Hume) (36.7993906, -118.9676088)
Legal: T13S, R28E, Sec7,8 , 17, 18

	Deg	Min	Vertical Deg	Min	Distance	Visible
Delilah	92	12	2	28	8.4
Park Ridge	345	41	-2	31	5.4
Buck Rock	305	59	-3	47	7.4

Converse Basin Grove-6,253' (Hume) (36.8057796, -118.9784425)
Legal:T13S, R28E, Sec7,

	Deg	Min	Vertical Deg	Min	Distance	Visible
Delilah	89	7	2	30	7.8
Park Ridge	341	8	-2	41	6.0
Buck Rock	306	2	-4	0	8.1

Converse Mountain-7,247' (Hume) (36.8190415, -118.9471546)
Legal: T11S, R28E, Sec__

	Deg	Min	Vertical Deg	Min	Distance	Visible
Delilah	83	45	3	21	9.6	The tip over Park Ridge
Park Ridge	358	21	0	32	6.6
Buck Rock	319	46	-1	12	7.5	Yes

Converse Mountain Grove-6,443' (Hume) (36.82439, -118.9409415)
Legal: T11S, R28E, Sec__

	Deg	Min	Vertical Deg	Min	Distance	Visible
Delilah	81	51	2	23	10.0
Park Ridge	1	18	-1	18	7.0
Buck Rock	323	36	-2	2	7.5

Converse Creek-7,247' (Hume) (36.8190415, -118.9471546)
Legal: T11S, R28__E, Sec__

	Deg	Min	Vertical Deg	Min	Distance	Visible
Delilah	60	47	-5	25	7.5
Park Ridge	341	1	-6	11	9.7
Buck Rock	316	55	-6	18	11.4

Description : Trips : References : Pictures 


Description:
Once contained a very extensive grove of the finest big trees; now completely destroyed by lumbering.
Charles Converse took up timberlands here in the ’70s. He had come to California in 1849, and was in the vicinity of Millerton about 1852. He ran a ferry across the San Joaquin at what is now Friant until 1869. Built the first jail in Fresno County, and was the first person confined in it. (L. A. Winchell, George W. Stewart.)  Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

There is a sign on the Indian Basin Grove Interpretive Trail which has information on Converse. It also talks about his wife who eventually divorced him.

From the Family Search site: When Charles Portor Converse was born on 13 November 1829, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan Territory, United States, his father, Elijah Damon Converse, was 39 and his mother, Rebecca Abbott, was 37. He married Eunice Charlotte Henderson on 21 February 1869, in Fresno, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Fresno, California, United States in 1880. He died on 21 December 1904, in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States.

From Fresno County's write-up on Lost Lake:In 1852, Charles Converse established the Converse Ferry near the north end of the present campground.  Converse would go on to design and construct the first Fresno County Courthouse that is located at Millerton Lake.  Converse Ferry would change names several times before being named the community of Friant. 

 

From GNIS:

• Converse Creek: 6 mile long tributary of Kings River.

Trips:

• February 10, 2021 - Snowshoed down the Boole Tree Road with Betty, Rose, Sherri and Gary
  

References:

•  Peak Bagger
• Bob Burd Blog
• Forest Service on Converse Mountain Grove
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Pictures:

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