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Silver Creek (Santa Clara County, California)
Silver Creek was a historical stream in present San Jose, California, corresponding to the modern-day Upper Silver Creek and Lower Silver Creek, tributaries to Coyote Creek. Silver Creek did not originally connect directly to Coyote Creek, but flowed into and out of a marshy area within Rancho Yerba Buena known as Laguna Socayre, an area which includes the present-day Lake Cunningham, a floodwater retention basin A retention basin, sometimes called a wet pond, wet detention basin, or stormwater management pond (SWMP), is an artificial pond with vegetation around the perimeter and a permanent pool of water in its design. It is used to manage stormwater r .... The part above the laguna was diverted to drain directly to Coyote Creek through the Ramblewood neighborhood, and is now known as Upper Silver Creek. The part below the lake, which takes on the flow of Thompson Creek and other tributaries, and which originally distributed into a large wetland in what is now East San J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Jose, California
San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 population of 1,013,240, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area, San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million and 9.7 million people respectively, the List of largest California cities by population, third-most populous city in California (after Los Angeles and San Diego and ahead of San Francisco), and the List of United States cities by population, tenth-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of . San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County and the main component of the San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County)
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Rancho Yerba Buena
Rancho Yerba Buena or Rancho Socayre was a Mexican land grant in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1833 by Governor José Figueroa to Antonio Chaboya (also spelled Chavoya or Chabolla). The grant was between Coyote Creek on the west and the foothills, and encompassed present day Evergreen neighborhood of southeast San José. History Francisco Xavier Antonio Chaboya (1803–1865) was the son of De Anza Expedition soldier Marcos Chaboya, and a brother of Anastasio Chaboya, grantee of Rancho Sanjon de los Moquelumnes. Antonio Chaboya married his first wife Maria Juliana Feliciana Rosario Buitron in 1826. After her death, he married Maria Ramona Encarnacion Higuera in 1846. With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican–American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Yerba Buena was filed with the Public Land Commission i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Cunningham
__NOTOC__ Lake Cunningham is an artificial lake in Lake Cunningham Park, in East San Jose, California, near the Eastridge Center, Eastridge Mall and Eastridge Transit Center. It is not a geological feature recognized in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). It is located on Capitol Expressway and stands next to Reid–Hillview Airport. The Lake Cunningham Skate Park and Raging Waters San Jose, Raging Waters theme park are also in Lake Cunningham Park. The Lake Cunningham–Eastridge Mall area was one of Santa Clara Valley's three permanent wetland complexes called "lagunas". The area was called Laguna Socayre (or Secayre) during the initial Euro-American settlement (1769–1850), and was part of the Rancho Yerba Buena or Rancho Socayre land grant of 1833. Laguna Socayre covered a much larger area than Lake Cunningham Park does now. Due to intense urbanization in the surrounding hill areas, the storm water that historically exited the canyons and percolated through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retention Basin
A retention basin, sometimes called a wet pond, wet detention basin, or stormwater management pond (SWMP), is an artificial pond with vegetation around the perimeter and a permanent pool of water in its design. It is used to manage stormwater runoff, for protection against flooding, for erosion control, and to serve as an artificial wetland and improve the water quality in adjacent bodies of water. It is distinguished from a detention basin, sometimes called a "dry pond", which temporarily stores water after a storm, but eventually empties out at a controlled rate to a downstream water body. It also differs from an infiltration basin which is designed to direct stormwater to groundwater through permeable soils. Wet ponds are frequently used for water quality improvement, groundwater recharge, flood protection, aesthetic improvement, or any combination of these. Sometimes they act as a replacement for the natural absorption of a forest or other natural process that was lost wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thompson Creek (Santa Clara County, California)
Thompson Creek is a creek in San Jose, California, which flows entirely in the Evergreen district of East San Jose. Thompson Creek is a tributary to Coyote Creek via Lower Silver Creek. The creek was one of several that fed into the marshy area known as Laguna Socayre, where the Lake Cunningham __NOTOC__ Lake Cunningham is an artificial lake in Lake Cunningham Park, in East San Jose, California, near the Eastridge Mall and Eastridge Transit Center. It is not a geological feature recognized in the Geographic Names Information System (GN ... flood retention basin is now. References Rivers of Santa Clara County, California {{SantaClaraCountyCA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguelita Creek
Miguelita Creek, originating in East Foothills, California, above the San Jose Country Club, is a tributary of Lower Silver Creek, which is a tributary of Coyote Creek, a river in Santa Clara County, California. Course The creek flows along the south side of Miguelita Road, through a canyon under Alum Rock Road, and into the San Jose Country Club, where several small golf-cart bridges cross it. Then it runs into the city limits of San Jose, between Holmes Drive and Fairway Drive, to a culvert at Fairway Drive and McKee Road, where it runs underground. The GNIS has two entries for Miguelita Creek. For feature ID 228642, the mouth coordinates are where the creek goes underground at Fairway Drive, and source is near Miguelita Drive. Feature ID 228641, the lower creek, has mouth coordinates where Lower Silver Creek enters Coyote Creek, and source near Lanning Way, where the creek re-emerges from underground. The lower creek segment merges with Lower Silver Creek near King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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