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Facts about the city

Big Creek (Big Creek Flats in the 1870s; Manzanita Park in 1902; until 1926, Cascada) is a small census-designated place in Fresno County, California, located in the Sierra Nevada on the north bank of Big Creek. It lies at an elevation of 4,984 feet (1,519 m) above sea level. Its population is 175. The ZIP code is 93605, and the community is inside area code 559.

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History

Sierra Summit is only about 15 kilometers (9 miles) away.

Big Creek was built at the site of the first dam and power plant of Southern California Edison California Edison's Big Creek hydroelectric project, one of the most extensive in the world. In addition, Big Creek is the hometown of Carver Mead, a Caltech electrical engineering professor who is responsible for developing the first GaAs MESFET and for his pioneering contributions to VLSI design. Its population is 258. Though Big Creek's only school is an elementary, it teaches kindergarten through 8th grade.