Bear Creek is a
[U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data]
The National Map
, accessed March 10, 2011 stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...
in eastern
Sonoma County, California
Sonoma County () is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, its population was 488,863. Its county seat and largest city is Santa Rosa, California, Santa Rosa. It is to the n ...
, United States, a tributary of
Sonoma Creek
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, ma ...
.
Course
The stream originates near the Sonoma–
Napa county line, about north of the northern
Bald Mountain Bald Mountain may refer to:
Geographic locations in the United States
* Bald Mountain (Heceta Island), Alaska
* Bald Mountain (California), a name given to over fifty summits in California
** Bald Mountain (Humboldt County)
* , a peak near Littl ...
summit. It descends first to the west and then to the south, emptying into Sonoma Creek just west of
Sugarloaf Ridge State Park
Sugarloaf Ridge State Park is a state park in Northern California, United States. Located in the Mayacamas Mountains north of Kenwood, the park straddles the boundary between Sonoma and Napa counties. The park contains the Bald Mountain and ...
.
Habitat and pollution
As of 2000, Bear Creek supported
steelhead trout
Steelhead, or occasionally steelhead trout, is the common name of the anadromous form of the coastal rainbow trout or redband trout (O. m. gairdneri). Steelhead are native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific basin in Northeast Asia and N ...
.
See also
*
Graham Creek
*
List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area
These watercourses (rivers, creeks, sloughs, etc.) in the San Francisco Bay Area are grouped according to the bodies of water they flow into. Tributaries are listed under the watercourses they feed, sorted by the elevation of the confluence so tha ...
*
Yulupa Creek
Yulupa Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 10, 2011 southeast-flowing perennial stream that rises on the southeastern flanks of the northern Sonoma Mountains ...
References
Rivers of Sonoma County, California
Rivers of Northern California
Tributaries of Sonoma Creek
St. Helena, California
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