Fancher Creek Canal, Fresno, Fresno County, California
Fancher's Lake, Lake
County, Indiana
Fancher, Orleans County,
New York 14452
Fancher Township, Ramsey County, North Dakota
Fancher Falls, DeKalb
County, Tennessee
Fancher
Field, E. Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington
Fanchers Dam & Reservoir, Okanogan County, Washington
Fancher, Baylor County, Texas
Fancher, Spokane County, Washington
Fancher, Portage County,
Wisconsin
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Fancher
Creek Canal, Fresno, Fresno County, California
Directions: From Clovis Avenue in southeast Fresno, go west on
Butler Avenue. The canal crosses Butler at DeWitt Avenue. There is
parking on the south side of Butler. A walkway on the east bank of the
canal goes south approximately .5 mile to the railroad tracks.
About the area:
The Fresno area is criss-crossed with many irrigation and flood-control
canals. Most of them have been turned into sterile environments that
support almost no wildlife. The Fancher Creek Canal, however, is an
exception. While it's still a canal (and stands empty during parts of
the winter), stands of mature trees along the canal have created a good
riparian habitat.
http://www.fresnoaudubon.org/sites.htm
Fancher's Lake, Lake
County, Indiana
Lake County is the extreme northwestern county in the State. It is
bounded on the north by Lake Michigan, on the west by Illinois, on the
south by the Kankakee River, and on the east by Porter County. The area
is, in round numbers, 500 square miles. In 1870 the population was
12,352. The northern part of the county along Lake Michigan is an
unproductive sandy plain, covered with dwarf pines and cedars. Some six
miles or more to the south, and especially south of Turkey Creek, there
is a rich alluvial soil, while along the Kankakee River there is a belt
about five miles in width of low and overflown marshes. In the more
central parts of the county, there is a great variety of surface
consisting of ridges, rolling and level prairies, table lands, oak
openings, and some heavy woodlands. The soil is equally diversified, and
made of pure sand in some places, yellowish sand somewhat productive in
others, white clay and rich loam again in other localities. The prairies
cover nearly two-thirds of the surface. Door and Lake Prairies are very
beautiful, and have a wide celebrity. The Kankakee drains nearly half
the county; its shores - if such they may be called - owing to marshes,
are ordinarily inaccessible, and seldom seen except by the wood-cutter
or the lonely trapper, who, in pursuit of his calling, ventures near
enough to behold its current hemmed in on each side by a wide expanse of
marsh and water. The principal tributaries of the Kankakee in the county
are Eagle, Cedar and West Creeks. The watershed is near the center of
the county. North of it we find the Calumet River, which, flowing in
from Porter County, traverses the county along a low, narrow, marshy
region. Near Blue Island, in Illinois, it turns and flows eastward until
it has nearly again reached the Porter County line, flowing in an almost
parallel course with the upper part of its waters. The ridges in the
northern part of the county occasion this peculiar eastward and westward
flow. The only important tributary of the Calumet, in Lake County, is
Deep River, in its eastern part. There are several lakes in the county,
the larges of which is Cedar Lake, southwest of Crown Point. It is two
and a half miles in length and one mile in width, and is a beautiful
sheet of water. The name is derived from the Red Cedars growing upon its
shores. Wolf and Berry Lakes, near the northwestern corner, are very
near together; the former, which is the largest of the pair, lies
equally in Illinois and Indiana. There was at one time a project to
construct here a harbor for vessels on Lake Michigan, and the plan was
strongly urged upon the Legislature in 1875, but failed to secure
sufficient support. The other lakes are named Sheehan's Lake,
Fancher's Lake, Lemon Lake and Lake Seven.
http://www.countyhistory.com/lake/more1876.htm
Fancher, Orleans County, New
York
MAP:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?city=Fancher&state=ny
Fancher Falls, DeKalb
County, Tennessee
Fancher Falls is located on the Center HIll Lake in Central Tennessee.
The only real way to view this waterfall is by boat. The source of
Fancher Falls is Taylor Creek. Sometimes the falls are called Taylor
Creek Falls. Taylor Creek creates this beautiful water by falling 80
feet onto a small ledge below and cascades into a small pool that run
off and starts Center Hill Lake.
Fancher
Field, East Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington
East Wenatchee’s Fancher Field was the landing site of the first
non-stop Trans-Pacific flight. Pilots Clyde Pangborn, who was from the
area, and Hugh Herndon began this historic leg of their round-the-world
excursion in Misawa, Japan in early October.
Forty-one hours later, the small plane landed on Fancher Field,
Pangborn’s home base. A monument has been erected in Fancher Heights
commemorating the historic event. A working replica of Pangborn and
Herndon’s plane, the Miss Veedol, was constructed to commemorate the
flight, and is on display at Pangborn Airport.
http://www.east-wenatchee.com/history.html
Fancher, Portage County,
Wisconsin
Fancher and Smokey Spur represent a community that shares those
names on Highway K at the Stockton-Amherst town line. The community was
created when the Green Bay & Western Railroad built a 'Y' on the tracks
to serve potato warehouses in the area. To accommodate the traffic,
although the spur was a flag stop instead of a depot, a tavern with a
blacksmith shop was constructed. When a post office was established
there in 1891 with Orson Fancher as the first postmaster, the community
bore his surname. Thus, Fancher became known as the site of St. Mary of
Mount Cannel Church. Later, Smokey Spur, the name for the tavern, also
became associated with the community. More Information:
http://www.pchswi.org/archives/communities/smallcomms.html#francherss
FANCHER, TEXAS.
Fancher, southwest of the site of what is now Seymour in western
Baylor County, served as a stop for the Wichita Valley line after the
train built through the area in 1908. A school was built in 1918 on land
given by Alex Fancher, for whom the community was apparently named, and
remained active until 1929. The community still functioned as a railroad
station in the early 1950s, although 1980 county maps gave no evidence
of its former location.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Baylor County Historical
Society, Salt Pork to Sirloin, Vol. 1: The History of Baylor County,
Texas, from 1879 to 1930 (Quanah, Texas: Nortex, 1972); Vol. 2: The
History of Baylor County, Texas, from 1878 to Present (1977).
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