Burrough Valley

Burrough Valley, California (once also called Burr Valley) is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills of eastern Fresno County, approximately thirty miles northeast of Fresno, California, at an elevation of about 1,600 feet (490 m) above sea level. The small valley covers approximately 4,000 acres (16 km2).

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Burrough Valley - Human Prehistory and History
... Human habitation of the Burrough Valley area goes back perhaps fifteen thousand years when tribes of paleo-Indians hunted megafauna like the giant short-faced bear (Arctodus simus) in the ... Local Monos still live on the Cold Springs Rancheria in neighboring Sycamore Valley ... Others live off the reservation in Burrough Valley itself ...

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