Garza Creek, originally El Arroyo de las Garzas (The Creek of the Herons). Its source on the north slope of
Zwang Peak
Zwang Peak is a mountain in the Diablo Range, southwest of Avenal, and about from Interstate 5 in Kings County, California. Its summit is at an elevation of . The peak was named for cattle rancher Jake Zwang (1880–1968), who came to the a ...
of the
Diablo Range, in
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.
It flows east-northeast through
Kreyenhagen Hills
The Kreyenhagen Hills are a range of foothills of the Diablo Range in western Fresno County and Kings County, California. The Kreyenhagen Hills form a long foothill belt in the soft formations between Reef Ridge
A reef is a ridge or shoa ...
to terminate in the
Kettleman Plain, 3.6 miles west northwest of
Avenal in the
San Joaquin Valley.
History
Arroyo de las Garzas was a watering place on the route of the
El Camino Viejo
El Camino Viejo a Los Ángeles ( en, the Old Road to Los Angeles), also known as El Camino Viejo and the Old Los Angeles Trail, was the oldest north-south trail in the interior of Spanish colonial Las Californias (1769–1822) and Mexican Alta Cali ...
in the
San Joaquin Valley between
Arroyo de Las Canoas and
Alamo Solo Spring
Alamo Solo Spring, (Lone Cottonwood Spring) a spring directly east of the Dagany Gap in the Pyramid Hills of Kern County, California. Its location appears on a 1914 USGS Topographic map of Lost Hills.
History
Before the advent of the Spanis ...
, in what is now Kings County.
This creek was the place first settled by
Dave Kettelman, a
49er that went back to the
Missouri River, and returned with a herd of cattle, which he pastured on his ranch in the
Kettleman Plain and the
Kettleman Hills west of
Tulare Lake.
His name was later given to Kettleman Station,
Kettleman City and the
Kettleman North Dome Oil Field
The Kettleman North Dome Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in Kings and Fresno counties, California. Discovered in 1928, it is the fifteenth largest field in the state by total ultimate oil recovery, and of the top twenty oil fields, it is ...
.
[Mildred Brooke Hoover, Douglas E. Kyle, Historic spots in California Stanford University, Stanford, 2002, p.139]
References
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Rivers of Kings County, California
Diablo Range
Geography of the San Joaquin Valley
El Camino Viejo
Rivers of Northern California