| Honey Lake | |
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 Landsat 7 image of Honey Lake | |
  Honey Lake  Honey Lake | |
| Location | Great Basin, Lassen County, California, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°15′N 120°21′W / 40.250°N 120.350°W |
| Primary inflows | Susan River, Long Valley Creek |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Surface area | 86 sq mi (220 km2)[1] |
| Water volume | 120,000 acre-feet (150,000,000 m3) |
| Surface elevation | 1,214 m (3,983 ft) [2] |
| Settlements | Susanville (20 mi SE) |
Honey Lake is an endorheic sink in the Honey Lake Valley[3] in northeastern California, near the Nevada border. Summer evaporation reduces the lake to a lower level of 12 square kilometers (3,000 acres) and creates an alkali flat.[citation needed] Honey Lake dries almost completely in most years.[4]
Honey Lake recreational activities include bird watching, picnicking, hiking, camping, warm-water fishing, and waterfowl hunting. The lake is part of the Honey–Eagle Lakes watershed of 2,770 sq mi (7,200 km2)[5] which includes the Honey Lake Basin of 2,201 sq mi (5,700 km2).[6]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Susanvillewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Honey Lake
- ^ "Honey Lake Valley Groundwater Basin" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-05-28.
- ^ Jones, Blair F.; Vandenburgh, A.S.; Truesdell, A.H.; Rettig, S.L. (1969). "Interstitial brines in playa sediments". Chemical Geology. 4 (1–2): 253–262. doi:10.1016/0009-2541(69)90049-7.
- ^ "Boundary Descriptions and Names of Regions, Subregions, Accounting Units and Cataloging Units". USGS.gov. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
- ^ Rose, Timothy P.; et al. (July 1997). "Environmental Isotope Investigation of Groundwater Flow in the Honey Lake Basin, California and Nevada" (PDF). Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Retrieved 2010-05-28.