Fish Springs, California

Coordinates: 37°04′30″N 118°15′13″W / 37.07500°N 118.25361°W

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Fish Springs
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 37°04′30″N 118°15′13″W / 37.07500°N 118.25361°W / 37.07500; -118.25361
Country	United States
State	California
County	Inyo County
Elevation ^[1]	3,937 ft (1,200 m)

Fish Springs (formerly, Tinemaha and Tinnemaha)^[2] is a set of springs in Inyo County, California.^[3]

It is located in the Owens Valley, 6.5 miles (10 km) south-southeast of Big Pine,^[2] at an elevation of 3937 feet (1200 m).^[1]

A post office operated at Fish Springs during part of 1866, and from 1868 to 1876.^[2] A post office operated at Tinnemaha from 1895 to 1910.^[2] Tinemaha is the name of a legendary Piute of the region.^[2]

The Tinemaha Reservoir, of the Los Angeles Aqueduct system, is located nearby.

References

^ ^a ^b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fish Springs, California
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 1164. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
^ Waring 1915, p. 322.

Reference bibliography

Waring, Gerald Ashley (1915). Springs of California. U.S. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper. Vol. 338. U.S. Government Printing Office. doi:10.3133/wsp338.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Inyo County, California, United States
County seat: Independence
City	Bishop	Inyo County map
CDPs	Big Pine Cartago Charleston View Darwin Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek Furnace Creek Homewood Canyon Independence Keeler Lone Pine Mesa Olancha Pearsonville Round Valley Shoshone Tecopa Trona Valley Wells West Bishop Wilkerson
Unincorporated communities	Alabama Hills Aspendell Badwater Ballarat Coso Junction Crater Death Valley Junction Deep Springs Dolomite Dunmovin Fish Springs Grant Haiwee Harrisburg Indian Village Kearsarge Laws Millspaugh Owenyo Panamint Springs Park Village Poleta Rovana Ryan Stovepipe Wells Sandy Valley Zurich
Indian reservations	Big Pine Reservation Bishop Paiute Reservation Fort Independence Reservation Lone Pine Reservation Timbisha Shoshone Reservation
Ghost towns	Bend City Beveridge Burnt Wagons Cerro Gordo Chloride City Chrysopolis Coso Echo Greenwater Gerstley Kearsarge Leadfield Lee Lila C Lookout City Manzanar Narka Noonday Camp Owensville Panamint City Reilly Reward Roachville San Carlos Schwaub Sodan Sunland Swansea White Mountain City
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