Place: CA-Davis Lakes

Davis Lakes (quad)
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Description:
Lake west of Wanda Lake, altitude 11,090, feet, named in 1925 for George Robert Davis, U.S.G.S. Born at Riverside, California, 1877; joined U.S.G.S. at age of 20; topographic engineer in charge of Pacific Division from 1912 until his death, in 1922. “Included in his work of topographic surveying was the mapping of the Mount Whitney, Mount Goddard, Bakersfield, and McKittrick quadrangles, in California, as well as mapping in the Yosemite National Park and Kings River Cañon, California, in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, in the Territory of Hawaii, and many other areas. Mr. Davis has thus indelibly imprinted his lifework on some thirty government maps portraying the highest type of topographic mapping.” (S.C.B., 1925, XII:2, p. 180, portrait.)  From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

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• July 2012

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