Cedar Creek is an
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South Fork Eel River
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in
Mendocino County
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in the
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. The creek begins southeast of Red Mountain, at an elevation of . It makes an S-curve west-northwest then bends sharply south, dropping into the valley of the South Fork Eel. The confluence is south of the city of
Leggett, on the river's right bank. The only named tributary of Cedar Creek is Little Cedar Creek, a
headwaters
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tributary.
Big Dann Creek
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joins the South Fork Eel on the same bank, just upstream of Cedar Creek, while the next major tributary downstream of Cedar is
Rock Creek Rock Creek or Rockcreek may refer to:
Streams
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* Rock Creek (California)
* Rock Creek (Fountain Creek tributary), Colorado
* Rock Creek (Idaho)
* Rock Creek (Kankakee River tributary), Illinois
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. The Cedar Creek watershed is rugged and has few tributaries.
See also
*
List of rivers of California
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References
Rivers of Mendocino County, California
Rivers of Northern California
Tributaries of the Eel River (California)
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