Jackson Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
, accessed March 11, 2011 stream in the Sierra Nevada foothills and Amador County, California.

Geography

It is a tributary of Dry Creek, which is a tributary of the

Mokelumne River The Mokelumne River ( or ; ''Mokelumne'', Miwok for "People of the Fish Net") is a -long river in northern California in the United States. The river flows west from a rugged portion of the central Sierra Nevada into the Central Valley and ul ...

. It is located southwest of Ione. The creek was linked to

placer gold Placer mining () is the mining of stream bed (alluvial) deposits for minerals. This may be done by open-pit (also called open-cast mining) or by various surface excavating equipment or tunneling equipment. Placer mining is frequently used for p ...

mining during the California Gold Rush era. Jackson Creek is dammed to create

Lake Amador Lake Amador is a reservoir located in Amador County, California. It lies at an elevation of 325 feet. The lake's water is impounded by the Jackson Creek Dam, a tall earth-and-rock dam, built in 1965 across Jackson Creek. The dam is long and w ...

using a high earth and rock construction. The dam was constructed in 1965.

Ecology

Tree cover in much of the watershed approaches 80 percent, with dominant tree

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

including

Interior Live Oak ''Quercus wislizeni'', known by the common name interior live oak, is an evergreen oak, highly variable and often shrubby, found in many areas of California in the United States continuing south into northern Baja California in Mexico. It genera ...

, ''Quercus wislizinii'',

Black Oak Black Oak may refer to: Places in the United States * Black Oak, Arkansas * Black Oak, Daviess County, Indiana * Black Oak, Lake County, Indiana, a neighborhood of Gary, Indiana * Black Oak, Missouri Other * Black Oak Arkansas Black Oak Ar ...

, ''Quercus kellogii'', Blue Oak, ''Quercus douglasiiigger'',

Gray Pine ''Pinus sabiniana'' (sometimes spelled ''P. sabineana''), with vernacular names including towani pine, foothill pine, gray pine, bull pine, and digger pine, is a pine endemic to California in the United States. Some sources discourage using the n ...

''Pinus sabiniana'',

Ponderosa Pine ''Pinus ponderosa'', commonly known as the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, western yellow-pine, or filipinus pine is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to mountainous regions of western North America. It is the ...

, ''Pinus ponderosa'',

Oregon Ash ''Fraxinus latifolia'', the Oregon ash, is a member of the ash genus '' Fraxinus'', native to western North America. Description ''Fraxinus latifolia'' is a medium-sized deciduous tree that can grow to heights of in height, with a trunk diame ...

, ''Fraxinus latifolia'' and

California Buckeye ''Aesculus californica'', commonly known as the California buckeye or California horse-chestnut, is a species of buckeye native to California and southwestern Oregon. Description It is a large deciduous shrub or small tree, up to tall, with ...

, ''Aesculus californica''.C. Michael Hogan, Gary Deghi et al., ''Scottsville Project Environmental Impact Report, Jackson California'', Earth Metrics Inc., Report 7562, Sept., 1989

References

Mokelumne River Rivers of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Rivers of Amador County, California Tributaries of the San Joaquin River Rivers of Northern California Rivers of the Sierra Nevada in California {{California-river-stub

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