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s in the

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California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

, grouped by region. Major lakes and reservoirs, if applicable, are indicated in italics.

North Coast (north of Humboldt Bay)

Rivers and streams between the Oregon border and

Humboldt Bay Humboldt Bay is a natural bay and a multi-basin, bar-built coastal lagoon located on the rugged North Coast of California, entirely within Humboldt County, United States. It is the largest protected body of water on the West Coast between Sa ...

that empty into the

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

(arranged north to south; tributaries with those entering nearest the sea first). Bold indicates rivers with more detailed lists in following sections. * Smith River ( jump to tributaries) *Elk Creek *Wilson Creek *

Klamath River The Klamath River (Karuk: ''Ishkêesh'', Klamath: ''Koke'', Yurok: ''Hehlkeek 'We-Roy'') flows through Oregon and northern California in the United States, emptying into the Pacific Ocean. By average discharge, the Klamath is the second larges ...

( jump to tributaries) * Redwood Creek ( jump to tributaries) *

Little River Little River may refer to several places: Australia Streams New South Wales *Little River (Dubbo), source in the Dubbo region, a tributary of the Macquarie River * Little River (Oberon), source in the Oberon Shire, a tributary of Coxs River (Haw ...

* Mad River ( jump to tributaries)

Smith River

* Smith River **Rowdy Creek **Mill Creek **Myrtle Creek **

South Fork Smith River South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

***Craigs Creek ***Coon Creek ***Rock Creek ***Gordon Creek ***Goose Creek ***Hurdygurdy Creek ***Jones Creek ***Buck Creek ***Quartz Creek ***Eightmile Creek ***Harrington Creek ***Prescott Fork Smith River ** Middle Fork Smith River ***Patrick Creek ***Little Jones Creek ***Monkey Creek ***Siskiyou Fork Smith River ***Griffin Creek ***Knopki Creek ** North Fork Smith River ***Stony Creek ***Still Creek ***Diamond Creek

Klamath River

**Hunter Creek ** Turwar Creek ** Blue Creek ***West Fork Blue Creek ***Nikowitz Creek ***Crescent City Fork Blue Creek ***East Fork Blue Creek **Ah Pah Creek **Tectah Creek **

Pecwan Creek Pecwan (Yurok: ''Pekwan'') alifornia Place Names of Indian Origin (Kroeber, 1916)/ref> is a locality in Humboldt County, California. It is located on the Klamath River The Klamath River (Karuk: ''Ishkêesh'', Klamath: ''Koke'', Yurok: ''Hehlke ...

**Mettah Creek **Roach Creek **Tully Creek **Pine Creek ** Trinity River ( jump to tributaries) **Hopkins Creek ** Copper Creek ***Indian Creek **Bluff Creek ***Fish Creek ***East Fork Bluff Creek ***Notice Creek ***North Fork Bluff Creek **Slate Creek **Red Cap Creek ***North Fork Red Cap Creek ***Middle Fork Red Cap Creek **

Boise Creek Boise Creek is a stream in Humboldt County, California, United States. From its origin on Orleans Mountain it flows 8.5 miles to join the Klamath River about 2.25 miles southeast of Orleans, California. Title . The creek lies within the Six Rivers ...

**Camp Creek **Pearch Creek ** Salmon River ( jump to tributaries) **Rogers Creek **Irving Creek **Rock Creek **Swillup Creek **Ukonom Creek ***McCash Fork **King Creek **Independence Creek **Clear Creek ***South Fork Clear Creek ***Fivemile Creek ***Tenmile Creek ***Bear Valley Creek ***Red Hill Creek ***West Fork Clear Creek ***Doe Creek **Oak Flat Creek **Elk Creek ***East Fork Elk Creek ***Doolittle Creek ***Bear Creek ***Granite Creek ****Burney Valley Creek ***Toms Valley Creek ***Rainy Valley Creek ** Indian Creek ***Doolittle Creek ***East Fork Indian Creek ***South Fork Indian Creek ****Twin Valley Fork Indian Creek ***Mill Creek ***Granite Creek ***Green Creek **China Creek **Thompson Creek **Fort Goff Creek **Portuguese Creek **Seiad Creek **Grider Creek **Walker Creek **

Scott River The Scott River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 9, 2011 river in Siskiyou County, California, United States. It is a tributary of the Klamath River, one of the ...

***Mill Creek ***Kelsey Creek ***Shackleford Creek ***Indian Creek ***Moffett Creek ***Kidder Creek ***Etna Creek ***Sugar Creek ***East Fork Scott River ***South Fork Scott River **

Shasta River The Shasta River is a tributary of the Klamath River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed 9 March 2011 in northern California in the United States. It dr ...

***Yreka Creek ***Oregon Slough ***

Little Shasta River Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt * ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film *The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John P ...

***Willow Creek ***Parks Creek ***Whitney Creek **Cottonwood Creek **Bogus Creek ** Jenny Creek ** Butte Creek (joins the Klamath in Oregon) ** Lost River (joins the Klamath in Oregon) ***Rock Creek ***Willow Creek ***Mowitz Creek

Trinity River

* Trinity River **Mill Creek **Tish Tang o Tang Creek ** Horse Linto Creek **Willow Creek **

South Fork Trinity River The South Fork Trinity River is the main tributary of the Trinity River, in the northern part of the U.S. state of California. It is part of the Klamath River drainage basin. It flows generally northwest from its source in the Klamath Mountains, ...

***Madden Creek *** Grouse Creek ****Mosquito Creek ***Buckeye Creek ***

Hayfork Creek Hayfork Creek is a tributary of the South Fork Trinity River in Northern California in the United States. At over long, it is the river's longest tributary and is one of the southernmost streams in the Klamath Basin. It winds through a generall ...

****Corral Creek ****Salt Creek ****Big Creek ****Carr Creek ****East Fork Hayfork Creek ***Indian Valley Creek ****Butter Creek ***Plummer Creek ***Rattlesnake Creek ***Smoky Creek ***Happy Camp Creek *** East Fork South Fork Trinity River ****Prospect Creek ***Shell Mountain Creek **Sharber Creek **Quinby Creek **Hawkins Creek ** New River ***Bell Creek ***Big Creek ***China Creek ***Panther Creek ***Quinby Creek ***Devils Canyon Creek ***East Fork New River ***Slide Creek ***Virgin Creek **Canadian Creek **Big French Creek **Little French Creek **Price Creek **Manzanita Creek **Big Bar Creek **Sailor Bar Creek **

North Fork Trinity River The North Fork Trinity River is a tributary of the Trinity River in the U.S. state of California. It flows south through the Klamath Mountains The Klamath Mountains are a rugged and lightly populated mountain range in northwestern California ...

***East Fork North Fork Trinity River ***Backbone Creek ***Whites Creek ***China Creek ***Rattlesnake Creek ***Gas Creek ***Grizzly Creek **Canyon Creek ***Big East Fork Canyon Creek ***Little East Fork Canyon Creek **

Oregon Gulch Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. T ...

**Soldier Creek **Dutch Creek **Browns Creek ***Little Creek **Reading Creek ** Weaver Creek ***Little Browns Creek ***East Weaver Creek ***West Weaver Creek **Indian Creek **Grass Valley Creek ***Little Grass Valley Creek **Rush Creek **Deadwood Creek **Papoose Creek ** Stuart Fork ***Hobel Creek ***Mule Creek ***Stoney Creek ***Owens Creek ***Deep Creek ***Boulder Creek ***Deer Creek **Swift Creek ***Granite Creek ** East Fork Trinity River ***Cedar Creek ***Mumbo Creek ***Crow Creek ***Baker Creek **Coffee Creek ***Little Boulder Creek ***Boulder Creek ***Sugar Pine Creek ***East Fork Coffee Creek ***North Fork Coffee Creek ***Union Creek ***South Fork Coffee Creek **Scorpion Creek **Eagle Creek **Ramshorn Creek **Bear Creek **Tangle Blue Creek **Scott Mountain Creek **Little Trinity River **Sherer Creek **Picayune Creek **Cedar Creek **Bear Creek **High Camp Creek

Salmon River

* Salmon River **Merrill Creek **Somes Creek ** Wooley Creek ***Steinacher Creek ***Bridge Creek ***Rock Creek ***Hancock Creek ***North Fork Wooley Creek ****Cuddihy Fork ***Hell Hole Creek ***Big Meadows Creek ***South Fork Wooley Creek ***Big Elk Fork **Butler Creek **Morehouse Creek **Nordheimer Creek **Crapo Creek **

North Fork Salmon River The North Fork Salmon River is a tributary of the Salmon River, flowing through east-central Idaho in the United States. It joins the Salmon River about north of the town of Salmon, in Lemhi County. See also *List of rivers of Idaho This is ...

***Little North Fork Salmon River ***Russian Creek ***Right Hand Fork North Fork Salmon River ** South Fork Salmon River ***Knownothing Creek ***Methodist Creek ***Black Bear Creek ***Plummer Creek ***St Claire Creek ***Crawford Creek ***Cecil Creek ***East Fork South Fork Salmon River ****Taylor Creek ***Rush Creek ***Little South Fork Salmon River

Redwood Creek

Redwood Creek (Humboldt County) Redwood Creek (Yurok: '' 'O'rekw 'We-Roy '' ) is a river in Humboldt County, California. The river's headwaters are in the Coast Range at about and it flows roughly northwest until it empties into the Pacific Ocean near the small town of Ori ...

Prairie Creek (California) Prairie Creek is the Redwood Creek tributary drainage basin including the inland portion of Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. Prairie Creek drains southerly through a Plio-Pleistocene non-marine sedimentary and metasedimentary formation to a co ...

***Lost Man Creek **McArthur Creek **Tom McDonald Creek **Bridge Creek **Copper Creek **Devils Creek **Coyote Creek **Panther Creek **Garrett Creek **Lacks Creek **Minor Creek **Lupton Creek **Noisy Creek **High Prairie Creek **Minon Creek **Lake Prairie Creek **Bradford Creek **Pardee Creek **Twin Lakes Creek

Mad River

* Mad River **Lindsay Creek **North Fork Mad River **Canon Creek **Maple Creek **Boulder Creek **Black Creek **Pilot Creek

Humboldt Bay

Primary streams entering Humboldt Bay are listed north to south beginning north of the entrance to the bay and continuing in a clockwise direction. Tributaries entering nearest the bay are listed first.Humboldt Bay Harbor District
Wetlands, Streams, Riparian Areas, and Watershed Areas
URL retrieved November 12, 2007 ''For additional detail on Humboldt Bay streams, see Humboldt Bay: Bay tributaries and sloughs.'' * Jacoby Creek * Eureka Slough **Freshwater Slough *** Freshwater Creek *

Elk River (California) The Elk River is a river in the U.S. state of California, originating at elevation in forested highlands southeast of Eureka, California. The north and south forks combine to flow into Humboldt Bay on the south edge of Eureka. The river was calle ...

* Salmon Creek (Northern Humboldt County)

North Coast (south of Humboldt Bay)

Rivers and streams between Humboldt Bay and the

Golden Gate The Golden Gate is a strait on the west coast of North America that connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean. It is defined by the headlands of the San Francisco Peninsula and the Marin Peninsula, and, since 1937, has been spanned by th ...

that empty into the

(arranged north to south; tributaries with those entering nearest the sea first): * Eel River ** Salt River **

Van Duzen River The Van Duzen River is a river on the north coast of California. It is a major tributary of the Eel River and drains , mostly in Humboldt County, with a small portion in Trinity County. The river travels from its headwaters on the west side o ...

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Yager Creek Yager Creek is a tributary stream of the Van Duzen River on the north coast of California in Humboldt County, California. It has its source at the confluence of North Fork Yager Creek and Middle Fork Yager Creek Middle or The Middle may refer ...

South Fork Eel River The South Fork Eel River is the largest tributary of the Eel River in north-central California in the United States. The river flows north from Laytonville to Dyerville/Founders' Grove where it joins the Eel River. The South Fork drains a long ...

(''see List of tributaries of the South Fork Eel River for additional detail'') *** Bull Creek ***

East Branch South Fork Eel River The East Branch South Fork Eel River, a tributary of the South Fork Eel River, is formed by the confluence of Cruso Cabin Creek and Elkhorn Creek, in Mendocino County in the U.S. state of California. The river is roughly long, meandering west to ...

*** Cedar Creek *** Tenmile Creek **

North Fork Eel River The North Fork Eel River is the smallest of four major tributaries of the Eel River (California), Eel River in northwestern California in the United States. It drains a rugged wilderness area of about in the California Coast Ranges, and flows t ...

Middle Fork Eel River The Middle Fork Eel River is a major tributary of the Eel River of northwestern California in the United States. It drains a rugged and sparsely populated region of the Yolla Bolly Mountains, part of the California Coast Range, in Trinity and Men ...

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North Fork Middle Fork Eel River North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' is ...

*** Thatcher Creek ***

Black Butte River The Black Butte River is located in the Mendocino National Forest of northern California in Glenn and Mendocino counties. It is a tributary to the Middle Fork Eel River and flows northward for from its headwaters near Round Mountain to the c ...

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Rice Fork The Rice Fork is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 9, 2011 tributary of the Eel River in Lake County, California. The Rice Fork begins on the upper northwest side ...

Outlet Creek Outlet Creek is an Eel River tributary draining the Little Lake Valley northerly through a canyon of the California Coast Ranges. The Northwestern Pacific Railroad bridges the creek twelve times, following it through the canyon. California St ...

* Bear River *

Mattole River The Mattole River is a river on the north coast of California, that flows northerly, then westerly into the Pacific Ocean. The vast majority of its course is through southern Humboldt County, though a short section of the river flows through no ...

North Fork Mattole River North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' is ...

Upper North Fork Mattole River Upper may refer to: * Shoe upper or ''vamp'', the part of a shoe on the top of the foot * Stimulant, drugs which induce temporary improvements in either mental or physical function or both * ''Upper'', the original film title for the 2013 found f ...

Usal Creek Usal Creek is the southernmost drainage basin unbridged by California State Route 1 on California's Lost Coast. The unpaved county road following the westernmost ridge line south from the King Range crosses Usal Creek near the Pacific coast, b ...

* Ten Mile River *

Noyo River The Noyo River (Pomo: ''Chemli-bida'') is a river on the north coast of California in Mendocino County. The river's headwaters are in the steep Mendocino Range, but downstream the river flows through gently sloping marine terraces before draini ...

* Big River *

Albion River The Albion River is an river in Mendocino County, California. The river drains about on the Mendocino Coast and empties into the Pacific Ocean near the town of Albion, California, where California State Route 1 crosses it on the Albion River Br ...

* Big Salmon Creek ** Little Salmon Creek *

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**Rancheria Creek **Anderson Creek *

Garcia River The Garcia River is a river on the northern coast of California, in southern Mendocino County. The river's watershed covers and its mainstem is long. The watershed receives of precipitation per year near the coast and inland. The watershed's ...

Gualala River The Gualala River is a river on the northern coast of California. Most of the river is in Sonoma County, but a portion is in Mendocino County. The headwaters of the river (measuring via its South Fork)U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography ...

** Wheatfield Fork * Russian River **

East Fork Russian River East Fork Russian River is a long tributary of the Russian River in Mendocino County, California artificially connected to the Eel River via an interbasin diversion at the Potter Valley Project hydroelectric facility. It forms in the north of P ...

''For details of the Sonoma and

Marin Marin (French) or Marín (Spanish "sailor") may refer to: People * Marin (name), including a list of persons with the given name or surname * MaRin, in-game name of professional South Korean ''League of Legends'' player Jang Gyeong-hwan (born 19 ...

coasts, see

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 ...

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San Francisco Bay

Streams that empty into

San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is dominated by the big cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. San Francisco Bay drains water from a ...

or its tributary bays (arranged clockwise, starting at the north side of the

; tributaries are listed from those entering nearest the bays to farthest). The Central Valley watershed feeding into Suisun Bay via the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta is excluded; see the following section for the Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems. ''For additional detail on Bay Area creeks, see

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San Pablo Bay (north of Carquinez Strait)

* Corte Madera Creek *

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Petaluma River The Petaluma River is a river in the California counties of Sonoma and Marin that becomes a tidal slough for most of its length. The headwaters are in the area southwest of Cotati. The flow is generally southward through Petaluma's old town, ...

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Napa River The Napa River is a river approximately long in the U.S. state of California. It drains a famous wine-growing region called the Napa Valley, in the mountains north of the San Francisco Bay. Milliken Creek and Mt. Veeder watersheds are a few of ...

** Carneros Creek

Suisun Bay

Suisun Slough Suisun may refer to: People *Suisun people Places *Suisun Bay *Suisun City, California **Suisun–Fairfield station *Suisun Marsh *Suisun Valley AVA The Suisun Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area in Solano County, California, located ...

** Corderia Slough **

Suisun Creek Suisun may refer to: People *Suisun people Places *Suisun Bay *Suisun City, California ** Suisun–Fairfield station *Suisun Marsh Located in northern California, the Suisun Marsh ( ) has been referred to as the largest brackish water marsh on ...

* Montezuma Slough *

Pacheco Creek (Contra Costa County) Pacheco Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 15, 2011 waterway in central Contra Costa County, California. It empties into Suisun Bay. The creek has a run of ...

Sacramento River The Sacramento River ( es, Río Sacramento) is the principal river of Northern California in the United States and is the largest river in California. Rising in the Klamath Mountains, the river flows south for before reaching the Sacramento–S ...

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San Joaquin River The San Joaquin River (; es, Río San Joaquín) is the longest river of Central California. The long river starts in the high Sierra Nevada, and flows through the rich agricultural region of the northern San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suis ...

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San Pablo Bay (south of Carquinez Strait) and San Francisco Bay

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* Pinole Creek *

San Leandro Creek San Leandro Creek ( es, Arroyo de San Leandro) is a year-round natural stream in the hills above Oakland in Alameda County and Contra Costa County of the East Bay in northern California.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-res ...

San Lorenzo Creek San Lorenzo Creek ( es, Arroyo de San Lorenzo) is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 15, 2011 year-round natural stream flowing through Hayward, California and other ...

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* Coyote Creek * Guadalupe River * Stevens Creek *

San Francisquito Creek San Francisquito Creek (Spanish for "Little San Francisco" - the "little" referring to size of the settlement compared to Mission San Francisco de Asís) is a creek that flows into southwest San Francisco Bay in California, United States. Histo ...

Redwood Creek (San Mateo County) Redwood Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed 2012-02-11 perennial stream located in San Mateo County, California, United States which discharges into South San Fran ...

* San Mateo Creek ''For additional detail on Bay Area creeks, see

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Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta

The

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systems drain the western slope of the Sierra Nevada and most of the Central Valley, forming the

Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta The Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, or California Delta, is an expansive inland river delta and estuary in Northern California. The Delta is formed at the western edge of the Central Valley by the confluence of the Sacramento and San ...

before emptying into Suisun Bay; together, they are the largest river system in California.

Sacramento River

**Cache Slough ***Steamboat Slough (splits from the Sacramento River upstream near Courtland) ***Elkhorn Slough ***Miner Slough ***

Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel The Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel (also known as Sacramento River Deep Water Ship Channel or SRDWSC) is a canal from the Port of Sacramento in West Sacramento, California, to the Sacramento River, which flows into San Francisco Bay. It was ...

(splits from the Sacramento River upstream at the

Port of Sacramento The Port of Sacramento, now known as the Port of West Sacramento, is an inland port in West Sacramento, California, in the Sacramento metropolitan area. It is northeast of San Francisco, and is centered in the California Central Valley, one of t ...

) ***Prospect Slough ****

Dickson Creek Dickson Creek is a stream in Solano County, in the U.S. state of California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it ...

***Lindsey Slough ***Shag Slough ***

Yolo Bypass The Yolo Bypass is one of the two flood bypasses in California's Sacramento Valley located in Yolo and Solano Counties. Through a system of weirs, the bypass diverts floodwaters from the Sacramento River away from the state's capital city of Sac ...

( jump to tributaries) – manmade floodway, occasionally receiving floodwaters from the Sacramento River via Fremont Weir near Knights Landing. ***Alamo Creek ***Ulatis Creek **

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( jump to tributaries) ** Dry Creek **

Feather River The Feather River is the principal tributary of the Sacramento River, in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. The river's main stem is about long. Its length to its most distant headwater tributary is just over . The main stem Feather R ...

( jump to tributaries) ** Colusa Basin Drainage Canal ***Sand Creek ***Cortina Creek ***Salt Creek ***Stone Corral Creek ***Funks Creek ***Hunter Creek ***Willow Creek ** Butte Creek ***Angel Slough ****

Little Chico Creek Little Chico CreekU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 3, 2012 is a perennial stream in Butte County, California. It descends the Sierra Nevada foothills from a spring o ...

***Little Dry Creek ***Little Butte Creek ***West Branch Butte Creek ** Stony Creek ***''

Black Butte Dam Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white have o ...

and Black Butte Lake'' *** North Fork Stony Creek *** Grindstone Creek ***Elk Creek ***Briscoe Creek ***

Little Stony Creek Little Stony Creek, a wildland in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of western Virginia, has been recognized by the Wilderness Society as a special place worthy of protection from logging and road construction. The Wilderness ...

*** North Fork Stony Creek ***Middle Fork Stony Creek ***South Fork Stony Creek **

Big Chico Creek Big Chico Creek is a creek in northeastern California that originates near Colby Mountain in Lassen National Park. It flows U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 10 ...

*** Mud Creek **** Rock Creek **

Burch Creek Burch Creek is a river in Herkimer County in the state of New York. It flows into the Mohawk River The Mohawk River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed October 3, 20 ...

** Jewett Creek ** Deer Creek ** Thomes Creek ***Mill Creek ***Fish Creek ** Mill Creek ***Little Mill Creek ** Elder Creek ** Willow Creek *** Oat Creek **

Dye Creek Dye Creek is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed March 10, 2011 watercourse in Tehama County, California, United States, that is a tributary to the Sacramento River. Dye ...

** Antelope Creek ***Little Antelope Creek **

Red Bank Creek Red Bank Creek is a major stream in Tehama County, California, and a tributary of the Sacramento River. About long, it originates in the foothills of the Coast Ranges, near the boundary of the Mendocino National Forest, and flows east across the ...

Reeds Creek Reeds Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of California. The long stream is a tributary to the Sacramento River The Sacramento River ( es, Río Sacramento) is the principal river of Northern California in the United States and is the largest r ...

** Dibble Creek **

Payne's Creek Payne's Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 10, 2011 natural watercourse in Tehama County, California. The creek was apparently originally called Paines Cree ...

Battle Creek Battle Creek is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, in northwest Calhoun County, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers. It is the principal city of the Battle Creek, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which encom ...

*** North Fork Battle Creek *** South Fork Battle Creek ** Cottonwood Creek ***Hooker Creek *** South Fork Cottonwood Creek ****Dry Creek ***** Salt Creek **** Cold Fork Cottonwood Creek ****Buck Creek ***Dry Creek *** North Fork Cottonwood Creek ****Roaring River *****Wilson Creek ****Jerusalem Creek ****Moon Fork Cottonwood Creek *** Middle Fork Cottonwood Creek ****

Beegum Creek Beegum Creek is a stream located in Shasta and Tehama counties, southwest of Redding in the U.S. state of California. The stream cuts through Beegum Gorge and runs before it empties into Cottonwood Creek. The creek derives its name from near ...

*****South Fork Beegum Creek **Ash Creek ** Bear Creek ** Cow Creek *** Little Cow Creek ****Swede Creek ****Dry Creek ****Cedar Creek *** Oak Run Creek *** Clover Creek *** Old Cow Creek ****Glendenning Creek *** South Cow Creek ** Clear Creek ***South Fork Clear Creek ***''

Whiskeytown Dam Whiskeytown Dam (officially Clair A. Hill Whiskeytown Dam) is an earthfill dam on Clear Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River of northern California in the United States. The dam is located about west of Redding, and impounds Whiskeytow ...

Whiskeytown Lake Whiskeytown Lake is a reservoir in Shasta County in northwestern California, United States, about west of Redding. The lake is in the Whiskeytown Unit of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area. Whiskeytown Lake has a capacity ...

'' ***Crystal Creek ***East Fork Clear Creek ** Rock Creek **''

Keswick Dam Keswick Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Sacramento River about northwest of Redding, California. Part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Central Valley Project, the dam is high and impounds the Keswick Reservoir, which has a capacity of ...

Keswick Reservoir Keswick may refer to: Places Australia *Keswick, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide **Keswick railway station, Adelaide **Adelaide Parklands Terminal (formerly Keswick Rail Terminal) Canada *Keswick, Edmonton, Alberta *Keswick, Ontario * Keswic ...

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Spring Creek A spring creek is a type of free flowing river whose name derives from its origin: an underground spring or set of springs which produces sufficient water to consistently feed a unique river. The water flowing in a spring creek may additionally be ...

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Slickrock Creek Slick Rock and Slickrock may refer to: *Slick Rock, Colorado, an unincorporated community in San Miguel County * Slick Rock, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Barren County *Slick Rock Falls Slick Rock Falls is a waterfall in Western Nor ...

*** Boulder Creek ** Flat Creek **''

Shasta Dam Shasta Dam (called Kennett Dam before its construction) is a concrete arch-gravity dam across the Sacramento River in Northern California in the United States. At high, it is the eighth-tallest dam in the United States. Located at the north e ...

Shasta Lake Shasta Lake, also popularly known as Lake Shasta, is a reservoir in Shasta County, California, United States. It began to store water in 1944 due to the impounding of the Sacramento River by Shasta Dam, the ninth tallest dam in the United State ...

'' **Backbone Creek **

Pit River The Pit River is a major river draining from northeastern California into the state's Central Valley. The Pit, the Klamath and the Columbia are the only three rivers in the U.S. that cross the Cascade Range. The longest tributary of the Sacr ...

( jump to tributaries) **Salt Creek **Castle Creek **Soda Creek **North Fork Sacramento River **Middle Fork Sacramento River **South Fork Sacramento River

Yolo Bypass

Putah Creek Putah Creek (Patwin: ''Liwaito'') is a major stream in Northern California, a tributary of the Yolo Bypass, and ultimately, the Sacramento River. The creek has its headwaters in the Mayacamas Mountains, a part of the Coast Range, and flows ...

*** Big Canyon Creek ***Pleasant Creek ***''

Monticello Dam Monticello Dam is a high concrete arch dam in Napa County, California, United States, constructed between 1953 and 1957. The dam impounded Putah Creek to create Lake Berryessa in the Vaca Mountains. Lake Berryessa is currently the seventh-large ...

Lake Berryessa Lake Berryessa is the largest lake in Napa County, California. This reservoir in the Vaca Mountains was formed following the construction of the Monticello Dam on Putah Creek in the 1950s. Since the early 1960s, this reservoir has provided water ...

'' ***Capell Creek ***Pope Creek ***Eticuera Creek ***Hunting Creek ***St Helena Creek **Willow Slough ** Cache Creek ***Bear Creek ****Sulphur Creek ***Rocky Creek ***North Fork of Cache Creek ****Long Valley Creek ****Wolf Creek ****''Indian Valley Dam,

Indian Valley Reservoir Indian Valley Reservoir is a human-made lake in Lake County, California, west of Williams, United States, near State Route 20. The capacity reservoir was created by the construction of the Indian Valley Dam across the north fork of Cache Cr ...

'' **** Bartlett Creek ***'' Clear Lake'' (inflow streams listed clockwise starting at outlet) **** Kelsey Creek ****Adobe Creek **** Forbes Creek ****

Rodman Slough Rodman Slough is a wetland that drains into Clear Lake in Lake County, California. It provides an important habitat for fish, amphibians, birds and other wildlife. It is fed by Scotts Creek and Middle Creek, which contribute about 70% of the se ...

***** Scotts Creek ***** Middle Creek ******Clover Creek

American River

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Folsom Dam Folsom Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the American River of Northern California in the United States, about northeast of Sacramento. The dam is high and long, flanked by earthen wing dams. It was completed in 1955, and officially opened the ...

Folsom Lake Folsom Lake is a reservoir on the American River in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, United States. It is located within Placer, El Dorado, and Sacramento Counties. It is about northeast of Sacramento. The lake surface area is , its ...

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North Fork American River The North Fork American River is the longest branch of the American River in Northern California. It is long from its source at the crest of the Sierra Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, to its mouth at Folsom Lake northeast of Sacramento. Prior to the co ...

*** Middle Fork American River ****Canyon Creek ****Otter Creek **** North Fork of the Middle Fork American River *****El Dorado Canyon *****Peavine Creek *****Grouse Creek *****Secret Canyon ****

Rubicon River The Rubicon ( la, Rubico; it, Rubicone ; rgn, Rubicôn ) is a shallow river in northeastern Italy, just north of Rimini. It was known as Fiumicino until 1933, when it was identified with the ancient river Rubicon, Crossing the Rubicon, famously ...

*****Long Canyon *****Pilot Creek *****South Fork Rubicon River ****** Gerle Creek *****''

Hell Hole Dam In religion and folklore, hell is a location in the afterlife in which evil souls are subjected to punitive suffering, most often through torture, as eternal punishment after death. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells a ...

, Hell Hole Reservoir'' *****Five Lakes Creek ****Duncan Canyon ****'' French Meadows Dam, French Meadows Reservoir'' ***Clipper Creek ***Owl Creek ***Bunch Canyon ***Shirttail Canyon ***Indian Creek ***Canyon Creek ***North Fork of North Fork American River ****East Fork of North Fork of North Fork American River ***Big Granite Creek **

South Fork American River The South Fork American River is a major tributary of the American River in El Dorado County, California, draining a watershed on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada east of Sacramento. The river begins in pristine Desolation Wilderness and fl ...

***Weber Creek ***Greenwood Creek ***Dutch Creek ***Rock Creek ***Slab Creek *** Silver Creek ****South Fork Silver Creek ****Little Silver Creek ****''

Union Valley Dam Union commonly refers to: * Trade union, an organization of workers * Union (set theory), in mathematics, a fundamental operation on sets Union may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * Union (band), an American rock group ** ''Un ...

Union Valley Reservoir Union Valley Reservoir is a reservoir in eastern El Dorado County, California, about northeast of Placerville. The lake is in Eldorado National Forest in the Sierra Nevada at an elevation of . It was formed in 1963 by the high earth and roc ...

'' ****Jones Fork ****Bassi Fork ***Alder Creek ***Silver Fork American River ****Caples Creek ***Pyramid Creek

Feather River

Sutter Bypass The Sutter Basin is a area of the Sacramento Valley in the U.S. state of California, and is part of the Feather River drainage basin. The basin includes the Sutter Basin Fire Protection District of ~ and uses irrigation from the Thermalito Afterb ...

- manmade floodway, occasionally receives floodwaters from the Sacramento River upstream and Butte Creek ** Bear River ***Algodon Slough ****Best Slough ****Hutchinson Creek ****Feeds Creek ***Dry Creek ***''

Camp Far West Dam Camp may refer to: Outdoor accommodation and recreation * Campsite or campground, a recreational outdoor sleeping and eating site * a temporary settlement for nomads * Camp, a term used in New England, Northern Ontario and New Brunswick to descri ...

Camp Far West Reservoir Camp Far West Reservoir (also known as Camp Far West Lake) is a small reservoir in the foothills of Northern California located approximately 8 miles east of Wheatland, California and 45 miles northeast of Sacramento. The lake also forms the meeti ...

'' ***Rock Creek ***Wolf Creek ***'' Rollins Dam,

Rollins Reservoir Rollins Dam (National ID # CA00255) is a dam on the border of Nevada and Placer counties in northern California, in the United States. The earthen dam was constructed in 1965 by the Nevada Irrigation District, with a height of , and a length of ...

'' ***Greenhorn Creek ***Steephollow Creek **

Yuba River The Yuba River is a tributary of the Feather River in the Sierra Nevada and eastern Sacramento Valley, in the U.S. state of California. The main stem of the river is about long, and its headwaters are split into three major forks. The Yuba River ...

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Honcut Creek Honcut Creek is a stream in central California in the United States. It is a tributary of the Feather River and flows from the Sierra Nevada south and west into the river] in the Sacramento Valley. The headwaters are in the Sierra Nevada, and ...

***North Honcut Creek ***South Honcut Creek **''

Oroville Dam Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of the Sacramento Valley. At 770 feet (235 m) high, it is the tallest dam in the U.S. and serv ...

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Lake Oroville Lake Oroville is a reservoir formed by the Oroville Dam impounding the Feather River, located in Butte County, northern California. The lake is situated northeast of the city of Oroville, within the Lake Oroville State Recreation Area, in the ...

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North Fork Feather River The North Fork Feather River is a watercourse of the northern Sierra Nevada in the U.S. state of California. It flows generally southwards from its headwaters near Lassen Peak to Lake Oroville, a reservoir formed by Oroville Dam in the foothills ...

***Canyon Creek *** West Branch Feather River ****Concow Creek ****Little West Fork Feather River **** Big Kimshew Creek ****Last Chance Creek ***French Creek ***Grizzly Creek ***Bucks Creek ***Chips Creek ***Yellow Creek ***

East Branch North Fork Feather River The East Branch North Fork Feather River is a left tributary of the North Fork Feather River in the northern Sierra Nevada, Plumas County, California. Primarily within the Plumas National Forest, its course extends from Paxton (north of Quincy) ...

****Rush Creek **** Indian Creek *****Wolf Creek *****

Lights Creek Lights Creek is a long stream in Plumas County, California and is a tributary of Indian Creek, part of the Feather River watershed. The creek begins in the Diamond Mountains, near the border of Plumas and Lassen County. It flows in a south-sou ...

*****Little Grizzly Creek ***** Last Chance Creek ****** Red Clover Creek *******Dixie Creek ******Squaw Queen Creek *****Boulder Creek **** Spanish Creek *****Greenhorn Creek *****Rock Creek **

Middle Fork Feather River The Middle Fork Feather River is a major river in Plumas and Butte Counties in the U.S. state of California. Nearly long, it drains about of the rugged northern Sierra Nevada range. Its headwaters are located near Beckwourth in the largest al ...

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South Fork Feather River The South Fork Feather River is a Lake Oroville tributary in the south portion of the Middle Fork Feather Watershed which drains several reservoirs including Little Grass Valley Reservoir. See also *List of rivers of California This is a li ...

****Sucker Run ****Lost Creek ****'' Little Grass Valley Dam,

Little Grass Valley Reservoir Little Grass Valley Reservoir is an artificial lake in Plumas County, California and Plumas National Forest near the Pacific Crest Trail. The lake's waters are impounded by Little Grass Valley Dam (National ID CA00269), which was completed in 196 ...

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Fall River Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the tenth-largest city in the state. Located along the eastern shore of Mount H ...

***Little North Fork Feather River ***South Branch Middle Fork Feather River ***Willow Creek ***Bear Creek ***Onion Valley Creek ***Nelson Creek ***Jamison Creek ***Grizzly Creek ***Sierra Valley Channels ****Smithneck Creek ****Little Last Chance Creek

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**Dry Creek **Deer Creek ***Squirrel Creek **''

Englebright Dam Englebright Dam is a high variable radius concrete arch dam on the Yuba River in the Sacramento River Basin, located in Yuba and Nevada counties of California, United States. It was put into service in 1941 by the United States Army Corps of En ...

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South Yuba River The U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 10, 2011 South Yuba River is a left-entering tributary of the Yuba River originating in the northern Sierra Nevada at Lake Ang ...

***Rush Creek ***Rock Creek ***Spring Creek ***Humbug Creek ***Poorman Creek *** Canyon Creek ***''

Lake Spaulding Dam Lake Spaulding Dam (National ID # CA00358) is a dam in Nevada County, California. Owned and operated by Pacific Gas & Electric for hydroelectric power generation, the -high dam was designed by John R. Freeman and completed in 1913 . It impoun ...

, Lake Spaulding'' *** Fordyce Creek ****North Creek ***Rattlesnake Creek ***Castle Creek ** Middle Yuba River ***Oregon Creek ***Kanaka Creek ***Wolf Creek ***East Fork Creek ***'' Jackson Meadows Dam, Jackson Meadows Reservoir'' **

North Yuba River The North Yuba River (also called the North Fork Yuba River) is the main tributary of the Yuba River in northern California in the United States. The river is about longU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline ...

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New Bullards Bar Dam New Bullards Bar Dam is a variable radius concrete arch dam constructed in the early 1960s in California on the North Yuba River. Located near the town of Dobbins in Yuba County, the dam forms the New Bullards Bar Reservoir, which can hold abou ...

New Bullards Bar Reservoir New Bullards Bar Reservoir is a large reservoir in northeastern Yuba County, California, United States, at an elevation of in the Tahoe National Forest and about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Yuba City. The reservoir is formed by New Bullard ...

'' *** Slate Creek *** Canyon Creek ****Little Canyon Creek ***Goodyears Creek ***

Downie River The Downie River is an approximately tributary of the North Yuba River in Sierra County, California, in the United States. The river originates from the confluence of the West Branch Downie River and Rattlesnake Creek in the Tahoe National Fore ...

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Pauley Creek Pauley may refer to: * Pauley, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States People with the surname * Aaron Pauley (born 1988), American musician * Art Pauley (1905–1984), American historian and author * Cecil De Pauley (1893–19 ...

***** Lavezzola Creek ***Haypress Creek ***Salmon Creek

Pit River

McCloud River The McCloud River is a longU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 10, 2011 river that flows east of and parallel to the upper Sacramento River, in Siskiyou County and Sh ...

***Nosoni Creek ***Chatterdown Creek ***Squaw Valley Creek ***Claiborne Creek ***Hawkins Creek ***Star City Creek ***Angel Creek ***Mud Creek ***Ash Creek ****Edson Creek ** Squaw Creek ***Salt Creek ***North Fork Squaw Creek ** Potem Creek **Roaring Creek **Iron Canyon Creek **Kosk Creek **Nelson Creek **Rock Creek **Clark Creek ** Burney Creek ** Hat Creek ***

Rising River Rising River is a stream in Shasta County, California, in the United States. The river comes into sight suddenly at its source, hence the name. See also *List of rivers of California This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of California, grou ...

***Lost Creek **

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Tule River The Tule River, also called Rio de San Pedro or Rio San Pedro, is a river in Tulare County in the U.S. state of California. The river originates in the Sierra Nevada east of Porterville and consists of three forks, North, Middle and South. The N ...

****Little Tule River ***Bear Creek **Beaver Creek **Horse Creek ** Ash Creek ***Willow Creek ***Dutch Flat Creek **Taylor Creek **Turner Creek **Toms Creek **Clover Swale Creek **Canyon Creek **Rattlesnake Creek ** North Fork Pit River ***Pine Creek ***Parker Creek ***Thoms Creek ***Joseph Creek ***'' Goose Lake'' (historical) **

South Fork Pit River The Pit River is a major river draining from northeastern California into the state's Central Valley (California), Central Valley. The Pit, the Klamath River, Klamath and the Columbia River, Columbia are the only three rivers in the U.S. that c ...

***Fitzhugh Creek ***Dry Creek ***Cedar Creek ***Mill Creek ***East Creek

San Joaquin River

** Marsh Creek **

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 (U.S.), Sierra Nevada into the Ce ...

( jump to tributaries) ** Old River (side channel of San Joaquin River) **Middle River (side channel of San Joaquin River) **Bear Creek **

Calaveras River The Calaveras River is a river in the San Joaquin Valley of California. It flows roughly southwest for from the confluence of its north and south forks in Calaveras County to its confluence with the San Joaquin River in the city of Stockton.U ...

( jump to tributaries) **Mormon Slough (distributary of Calaveras River) **French Camp Slough ***Littlejohns Creek ****Rock Creek ***Lone Tree Creek **

Corral Hollow Creek Corral Hollow Creek, originally El Arroyo de los Buenos Ayres (The Creek of the Good Winds), later Buenos Ayres Creek, is a stream and tributary of the San Joaquin River, flowing through Alameda County and San Joaquin County, Central California. ...

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Stanislaus River The Stanislaus River is a tributary of the San Joaquin River in north-central California in the United States. The main stem of the river is long, and measured to its furthest headwaters it is about long. Originating as three forks in the high ...

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Hospital Creek Hospital Creek, originally Arroyo de Ospital, or Arroyo del Osnital is a tributary of the San Joaquin River draining eastern slopes of a part of the Diablo Range within San Joaquin County. The creek is approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. ...

Ingram Creek Ingram Creek, originally Arroyo de la Suerte, is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed March 11, 2011 tributary of the San Joaquin River in Stanislaus County, in the San Joaqu ...

Tuolumne River The Tuolumne River ( Yokutsan: ''Tawalimnu'') flows for through Central California, from the high Sierra Nevada to join the San Joaquin River in the Central Valley. Originating at over above sea level in Yosemite National Park, the Tuolumne ...

( jump to tributaries) ** Del Puerto Creek **Salado Creek **

Orestimba Creek Orestimba Creek, originally Arroyo de Orestimba (Orestimba, a Yokutsan word for "meeting place") is a tributary of the San Joaquin River draining eastern slopes of part of the Diablo Range within the San Joaquin Valley of California. The Creek ha ...

***Crow Creek **

Merced River The Merced River (), in the central part of the U.S. state of California, is a -long tributary of the San Joaquin River flowing from the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada into the San Joaquin Valley. It is most well known for its swift and st ...

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Mud Slough The Laguna Creek watershed consists of of land within northern California's Alameda County, California, Alameda County. The watershed drains the foothills of the Diablo Range south of Niles Canyon. To the southeast, the area of Mission Peak Reg ...

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Los Banos Creek LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to: Science and technology * Length of stay, the duration of a single episode of hospitalisation * Level of service, a measure used by traffic engineers * Level of significance, a measure of statistical significanc ...

**** Garzas Creek **** San Luis Creek **Bear Creek ***Deep Slough ****Owens Creek ****Mariposa Creek *****Deadman Creek **Mariposa Slough **Eastside Bypass (man-made floodway, occasionally receiving floodwater from the upstream San Joaquin River via Chowchilla Bypass Structure, near Mendota) ***

Chowchilla River The Chowchilla River is a river in central California, United States and a minor tributary of the San Joaquin River. It flows for from the western side of the Sierra Nevada Range to the San Joaquin River system in the San Joaquin Valley. Most of ...

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Fresno River The Fresno River (Spanish for "ash tree") is a river in Central California and a major tributary of the San Joaquin River. It runs approximately from the Sierra Nevada Range to the San Joaquin River if measured from the source of Rainier Creek, ...

****Dry Creek **

Fresno Slough Fresno Slough is a distributary of the Kings River that connects the North Fork Kings River to the San Joaquin River in San Joaquin Valley, Kings County, California. Until 1879 when irrigation diversions prevented it, Fresno Slough was also an ou ...

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Friant Dam Friant Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the San Joaquin River in central California in the United States, on the boundary of Fresno and Madera Counties. It was built between 1937 and 1942 as part of a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) water pr ...

Millerton Lake Millerton Lake is an artificial lake near the town of Friant, California, Friant about north of downtown Fresno, California, Fresno. The reservoir was created by the construction of 319 ft (97 m) high Friant Dam on the San Joaquin River wh ...

'' **Fine Gold Creek **Willow Creek **Stevenson Creek ***''

Shaver Lake Shaver Lake is an artificial lake on Stevenson Creek, in the Sierra National Forest of Fresno County, California. At elevation , several smaller streams also flow into the lake, and it receives water from the tunnels of Southern California Edis ...

'' ** Big Creek ***''

Huntington Lake Huntington Lake is a reservoir in Fresno County, California on Big Creek, located in the Sierra Nevada at an elevation of 7000 ft. The lake receives water from Southern California Edison's Big Creek Hydroelectric Project, as well as the ...

'' **Rock Creek **''

Mammoth Pool Dam Mammoth Pool Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on the San Joaquin River in the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, about northeast of Fresno. It forms Mammoth Pool Reservoir and lies within the Sierra National Forest. The dam ...

Mammoth Pool Reservoir Mammoth Pool Reservoir is a reservoir on the San Joaquin River in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada, within the Sierra National Forest in California. It creates the border between Fresno County, California, Fresno County and Madera County, ...

'' **Kaiser Creek **Jackass Creek **

South Fork San Joaquin River The South Fork San Joaquin River is the largest headwater of the San Joaquin River in central California, United States. About long, it drains an area of the high Sierra Nevada about northeast of Fresno. Course The South Fork begins at Martha ...

***Mono Creek ****''Vermilion Valley Dam, Lake Thomas A. Edison'' ***Bear Creek ***''

Florence Lake Dam Florence Lake Dam is a concrete multiple-arch dam on the South Fork of the San Joaquin River, in Fresno County, California in the United States. The high dam was designed by John S. Eastwood and completed in 1926 (two years after Eastwood's dea ...

, Florence Lake'' ***Piute Creek ***Evolution Creek **Granite Creek ** North Fork San Joaquin River ** Middle Fork San Joaquin River ***Fish Creek *** Minaret Creek ***'' Thousand Island Lake (San Joaquin River source)''

Mokelumne River

**Snodgrass Slough **

Cosumnes River The Cosumnes River is a river in northern California in the United States. It rises on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada and flows approximately into the Central Valley, emptying into the Mokelumne River in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Del ...

***Skunk Creek ***Badger Creek ***Deer Creek ***Arkansas Creek ***Little Indian Creek ***Big Canyon Creek ***Big Indian Creek ***North Fork Cosumnes River ****Camp Creek *****Sly Park Creek ****Steely Fork Cosumnes River ***Middle Fork Cosumnes River ****Scott Creek ****Dogtown Creek ** Dry Creek ***Coyote Creek ***

Jackson Creek Jackson Creek may refer to: ;In Australia *Jackson Creek (Victoria), a watercourse of the Port Phillip catchment in Victoria ;In Canada *Jackson Creek (Alberta) *Jackson Creek (Toronto) *Jackson Creek (Peterborough, Ontario) ;In the United States ...

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Sutter Creek Sutter Creek (formerly spelled Sutter's Creek and Suttercreek; formerly named Suttersville) is a city in Amador County, California, United States. The population was 2,501 at the 2010 census, up from 2,303 at the 2000 census. It is accessible vi ...

***Rancheria Creek ***North Fork Dry Creek ***South Fork Dry Creek **''

Camanche Dam Camanche Dam is an earthfill Dam on the Mokelumne River in the central California, about 20 mi (32 km) from East Lodi. The dam and reservoir lie in the Sierra Nevada foothills in San Joaquin County. Construction of Camanche Dam was start ...

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Pardee Dam Pardee Dam is a -high structure across the Mokelumne River which marks the boundary between Amador and Calaveras Counties, located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada approximately northeast of Stockton. History Construction of the Pardee ...

Pardee Reservoir Pardee may refer to: People *Pardee (surname) *Pardee Butler, American clergyman and abolitionist Places United States *Pardee, Kansas *Pardee, Virginia *Pardee, West Virginia *Pardee Home *Pardee Homes *Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School ...

'' ** North Fork Mokelumne River ***Tiger Creek ***Blue Creek *** Bear River ***''

Salt Springs Dam Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of a natural crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantitie ...

Salt Springs Reservoir Salt Springs Reservoir is a reservoir in the eastern portions of Amador County and Calaveras County of California in the Sierra Nevada about east-northeast of Jackson. The reservoir is in the Eldorado National Forest at an elevation of . The re ...

'' ***Summit City Creek ***Pacific Creek ** Middle Fork Mokelumne River *** South Fork Mokelumne River ****Licking Fork ***Forest Creek Note: In the Delta the Mokelumne River divides into two short branches, also called the "North Fork" and "South Fork", which recombine before reaching the San Joaquin River.

Calaveras River

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New Hogan Dam New Hogan Dam is an embankment dam on the Calaveras River, a tributary of the San Joaquin River in central California. The dam lies east of Rancho Calaveras and impounds New Hogan Lake in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Built by the U.S. A ...

, New Hogan Lake'' **North Fork Calaveras River ***Murray Creek ***Jesus Maria Creek ***Esperanza Creek **South Fork Calaveras River ***Calaveritas Creek ***San Antonio Creek ***San Domingo Creek ***Cherokee Creek

Stanislaus River

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Tulloch Dam Tulloch Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Stanislaus River in central California. The dam is part of the Stanislaus River Tri-Dam project cooperatively owned by the Oakdale and South San Joaquin Irrigation Districts, and was completed in 1958. I ...

, Tulloch Reservoir'' ** Black Creek **''

New Melones Dam New Melones Dam is an earth and rock filled embankment dam on the Stanislaus River, about west of Jamestown, California, United States, on the border of Calaveras County and Tuolumne County. The water impounded by the dam forms New Melones ...

New Melones Lake New Melones Lake is a reservoir on the Stanislaus River in the central Sierra Nevada foothills, within Calaveras County and Tuolumne County, California. The New Melones Dam and reservoir are a water collection and transfer unit of the Central Va ...

'' **Mormon Creek **

Angels Creek Angels Creek is a -long tributary of the Stanislaus River in Calaveras County, California in the United States. It flows generally southwest from Forest Meadows, through the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, to join the Stanislaus River in New Me ...

**Coyote Creek **

South Fork Stanislaus River The South Fork Stanislaus River is a major tributary of the Stanislaus River in Tuolumne County, California. The river flows for through rugged alpine and foothill areas of the Sierra Nevada. The river begins in Hay Meadow in the Emigrant Wil ...

***Deer Creek ***Herring Creek **

Rose Creek Rose Creek is an urban stream in San Diego, California that drains to Mission Bay. It flows in a north-to-south direction through Rose Canyon and San Clemente Canyon and their tributary canyons. Both Rose Creek and Rose Canyon are named for San ...

***Knight Creek ***Eagle Creek **

Middle Fork Stanislaus River The Middle Fork Stanislaus River is a tributary of the Stanislaus River in the central Sierra Nevada and Stanislaus National Forest of eastern California. Geography The river begins at the confluence of Kennedy Creek and Summit Creek in the Emig ...

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Beardsley Dam Beardsley Dam (National ID # CA00263) is a dam on the Middle Fork Stanislaus River in Tuolumne County, California. The site is surrounded by the Stanislaus National Forest. Water and power The earthen dam was completed in with a height of , and ...

, Beardsley Lake'' ***Mill Creek ***''

Donnells Dam Donnells Dam (National ID # CA00264) is a concrete arch dam located on the Middle Fork of the Stanislaus River in Tuolumne County, California. The water impounded by the high dam forms Donnell Lake in Stanislaus National Forest. The dam and res ...

, Donnell Lake'' ***Niagara Creek ***Dardanelles Creek *** Clark Fork Middle Fork Stanislaus River ****Arnot Creek ****Disaster Creek ***Eagle Creek ***Deadman Creek ***Summit Creek ***Kennedy Creek **

North Fork Stanislaus River The North Fork Stanislaus River is a tributary of the Stanislaus River in the central Sierra Nevada and Stanislaus National Forest of eastern California. Geography The river flows southwest from Alpine County, through Calaveras County, to Tuolum ...

*** Griswold Creek ****Soap Creek ****Skull Creek ***Mill Creek *** Beaver Creek ***Highland Creek ****''

New Spicer Meadow Dam New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created. New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz Albums and EPs * ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 * ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, ...

New Spicer Meadow Reservoir New Spicer Meadow Reservoir is a reservoir in the Sierra Nevada, within the Stanislaus National Forest in eastern Tuolumne County, California. It is located near the western Alpine County line, at an elevation of . Water and power The reservoi ...

'' ***Bloods Creek ***Silver Creek

Tuolumne River

** Dry Creek **''

New Don Pedro Dam New Don Pedro Dam, often known simply as Don Pedro Dam, is an earthen embankment dam across the Tuolumne River, about northeast of La Grange, in Tuolumne County, California. The dam was completed in 1971, after four years of construction, to ...

, Lake Don Pedro'' **Moccasin Creek **Sullivan Creek ***Woods Creek ** North Fork Tuolumne River ** Clavey River ***Hull Creek ***Reynolds Creek ***Bourland Creek ***Bell Creek ***Lily Creek ** South Fork Tuolumne River *** Middle Fork Tuolumne River **** Cottonwood Creek ** Cherry Creek ***Eleanor Creek ****Frog Creek ****Kendrick Creek ***'' Cherry Valley Dam,

Cherry Lake Cherry Lake (also known as Lake Lloyd) is an artificial lake in the Stanislaus National Forest of Tuolumne County, California, U.S.A., about east of the city of Sonora. It is at an elevation of on the western side of the Sierra Nevada, and l ...

'' ***West Fork Cherry Creek ***East Fork Cherry Creek ***North Fork Cherry Creek **'' O'Shaughnessy Dam,

Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Hetch Hetchy is a valley, a reservoir, and a water system in California in the United States. The glacial Hetch Hetchy Valley lies in the northwestern part of Yosemite National Park and is drained by the Tuolumne River. For thousands of years bef ...

'' ** Falls Creek ***Tilden Creek **

Tiltill Creek Tiltill Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of California. It empties into the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. Tiltill Creek is entirely within Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded o ...

Rancheria Creek Rancheria Creek may refer to: *Rancheria Creek (Tuolumne County, California), a stream in California * Rancheria Creek (Big Butte Creek tributary), a stream in Oregon See also * Rancheria River (disambiguation) * Rancheria (disambiguation) A Ra ...

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Breeze Creek Breeze Creek is a stream in Tuolumne County, California, United States. Breeze Creek was named for William F. Breeze for his assistance in creating a map of the area. See also *List of rivers of California References

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***Stubblefield Canyon ** Piute Creek ** Register Creek **

Ten Lakes Basin Creek Ten, TEN or 10 may refer to: * 10, an even natural number following 9 and preceding 11 * one of the years 10 BC, AD 10, 1910 and 2010 * October, the tenth month of the year Places * Mount Ten, in Vietnam * Tongren Fenghuang Airport (IATA code ...

** Cathedral Creek *** South Fork Cathedral Creek ** Return Creek ***Matterhorn Canyon ** Conness Creek *** Alkali Creek ** Dingley Creek **

Delaney Creek Delaney Creek is a stream in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Delaney Creek was named for a Native American (Indian) named Delaney who settled there. See also *List of rivers of Indiana This is a list of rivers in Indiana (U.S ...

Budd Creek Budd Creek is a stream in Yosemite National Park, United States. Budd Creek was named for James Budd, 19th Governor of California. See also *List of rivers of California This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of California, grouped by regi ...

** Unicorn Creek ** Dana Fork Tuolumne River *** Gaylor Creek ***

Parker Pass Creek Parker may refer to: Persons * Parker (given name) * Parker (surname) Places Place names in the United States *Parker, Arizona *Parker, Colorado *Parker, Florida *Parker, Idaho *Parker, Kansas *Parker, Missouri *Parker, North Carolina *Parker, Pe ...

**** Mono Pass Creek ** Lyell Fork Tuolumne River *** Rafferty Creek **** Evelyn Lake Creek ***

Ireland Creek Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

*** Kuna Creek

Merced River

** Bear Creek ** Dry Creek **''

New Exchequer Dam New Exchequer Dam is a concrete–faced, rock-fill dam on the Merced River in central California in the United States. It forms Lake McClure, which impounds the river for irrigation and hydroelectric power production and has a capacity of more tha ...

and

Lake McClure Lake McClure is a reservoir in the Sierra Nevada foothills of western Mariposa County, California. It is formed by the New Exchequer Dam impounding the Merced River, which is a tributary of the San Joaquin River. It is about east of Modesto. ...

'' ** North Fork Merced River **

South Fork Merced River The South Fork Merced River is the largest tributary of the Merced River. Most of the river flows within Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada of California. The river is long, and its drainage basin covers about , of which are in the nati ...

*** Alder Creek *** Bishop Creek **** Elevenmile Creek ***** Rail Creek **

Bridalveil Creek Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ...

Yosemite Creek Yosemite Creek is a creek of the Sierra Nevada, located in Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County, California.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 11, 2011 Geography ...

Tenaya Creek Tenaya (died 1853) was a leader of the Ahwahnechee people in Yosemite Valley, California. Background Tenaya's father was a leader of the Ahwahnechee people (or Awahnichi). The Ahwahneechee had become a tribe distinct from the other tribes in the ...

*** Snow Creek ** Illilouette Creek ** Fletcher Creek *** Lewis Creek **** Florence Creek ** Red Peak Fork *** Red Devil Creek ** Lyell Fork *** Hutching Creek **

Merced Peak Fork Merced (; Spanish for "Mercy") is a city in, and the county seat of, Merced County, California, United States, in the San Joaquin Valley. As of the 2020 Census, the city had a population of 86,333, up from 78,958 in 2010. Incorporated on April 1 ...

Triple Peak Fork Triple is used in several contexts to mean "threefold" or a " treble": Sports * Triple (baseball), a three-base hit * A basketball three-point field goal * A figure skating jump with three rotations * In bowling terms, three strikes in a row * I ...

*** Foerster Creek

Tulare Basin

Usually an endorheic basin, waters in this region all eventually would reach

Tulare Lake Tulare Lake () (Spanish: ''Laguna de Tache'', Yokuts: ''Pah-áh-su'') is a freshwater dry lake with residual wetlands and marshes in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. After Lake Cahuilla disappeared in the 17th century ...

. This region would overflow into the San Joaquin River during flood years when Tulare Lake overflowed. Streams are listed clockwise around the Tulare Basin, starting at the Kings River: * Kings River ( jump to tributaries) *Sand Creek *Cross Creek **Mill Creek ***

Kaweah River The Kaweah River is a river draining the southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, California in the United States. Fed primarily by high elevation snowmelt along the Great Western Divide, the Kaweah begins as four forks in Sequoia National Park, ...

( jump to tributaries) **Elbow Creek ***

St. John's River The St. Johns River ( es, Río San Juan) is the longest river in the U.S. state of Florida and its most significant one for commercial and recreational use. At long, it flows north and winds through or borders twelve counties. The drop in eleva ...

(distributary of Kaweah River) **Cottonwood Creek *Lewis Creek *

( jump to tributaries) *Deer Creek **Pothole Creek **Gordon Creek **Tyler Creek * White River **Coarse Gold Creek **Arrastre Creek **Chalaney Creek *Rag Gulch **Five Dog Creek **Willow Springs Creek *Deer Creek *

Poso Creek Poso Creek or Posey Creek is an intermittent stream in Kern County, California. The headwaters of Poso Creek are located within the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada and the Sequoia National Forest, at elevations of up to . The high Spear Cr ...

**Little Creek **Rattlesnake Creek **Little Poso Creek **Cedar Creek ***Lumreau Creek **Von Hellum Creek **Spear Creek *

Kern River The Kern River, previously Rio de San Felipe, later La Porciuncula, is an Endangered, Wild and Scenic river in the U.S. state of California, approximately long. It drains an area of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains northeast of Bakersfiel ...

( jump to tributaries) *Caliente Creek **Walker Basin Creek ***Rancheria Creek **Tehachapi Creek **Indian Creek *Tejon Creek *El Paso Creek *Pastoria Creek *Grapevine Creek *Tecuya Creek *Salt Creek *Pleito Creek *San Emigdio Creek *Los Lobos Creek *Santiago Creek *Bitter Creek *Bitterwater Creek *Sandy Creek *Buena Vista Creek *Salt Creek *Chico Creek *Santos Creek *Media Agua Creek *Bitterwater Creek *Avenal Creek *Baby King Creek *Canoas Creek * Los Gatos Creek **Zapato Chino Creek

Kings River

* Kings River (Divides into the North Fork, South Fork and Clark's Fork distributaries in the San Joaquin Valley, not to be confused with the North and South Forks in the Sierra Nevada headwaters. North Fork connects to the

that drains into the

(during high flows), before turning to the south rejoining with the other distributaries to reform the Kings River and emptying into

.) ** Fish Creek ** Hughes Creek ** Mill Creek **''

Pine Flat Dam Pine Flat Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Kings River (California), Kings River in the Central Valley (California), Central Valley of Fresno County, California United States. Situated about east of Fresno, California, Fresno, the dam is hi ...

Pine Flat Lake Pine Flat Lake is an artificial lake or reservoir in the Sierra Nevada foothills of eastern Fresno County, California on the western north-south border to the Sierra- and Sequoia National Forests, about east of Fresno. The lake is managed by ...

'' ** Deer Creek ** Zebe Creek ** Russian Charlie Creek ** Lefever Creek **

Billy Creek Billy's Creek is a creek in Fort Myers, Florida. It is a tributary of the Caloosahatchee River and contains mangrove vegetation. The creek was named after the Seminole chief Billy Bowlegs who was forced to surrender there by United States forces ...

** Sycamore Creek ** Big Creek ** Sacata Creek ** Redoak Creek ** Lower Rancheria Creek ** Sycamore Springs Creek **

North Fork Kings River The North Fork Kings River is a tributary of the Kings River, in the U.S. state of California. The river's main stem is entirely within Fresno County, and its watershed drains about of the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range. Course It ri ...

*** Dinkey Creek ***

Basin Creek Basin may refer to: Geography and geology * Depression (geology) ** Back-arc basin, a submarine feature associated with island arcs and subduction zones ** Debris basin, designed to prevent damage from debris flow ** Drainage basin (hydrology), ...

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Patterson Creek Patterson Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 tributary of the North Branch Potomac River in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, in the United States. ...

*** Weir Creek *** Black Rock Creek *** Williams Creek *** Mule Creek ***

*** Teakettle Creek ***

Long Meadow Creek Long may refer to: Measurement * Long, characteristic of something of great duration * Long, characteristic of something of great length * Longitude (abbreviation: long.), a geographic coordinate * Longa (music), note value in early music mens ...

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Wishon Dam Wishon Dam (National ID # CA00411) is a dam in Fresno County, California in the Sierra National Forest, in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. It impounds the North Fork Kings River to form Wishon Reservoir. The earthen and rockfill gravity dam wa ...

, Wishon Reservoir'' *** Woodchuck Creek *** Short Hair Creek *** Sharp Creek *** Helms Creek ****'' Courtright Dam, Courtright Reservoir'' **** Dusy Creek *** Post Corral Creek **** Burnt Corral Creek *** Flemming Creek ***

Nichols Canyon Nichols Canyon is a residential area in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, California, bounded by Hollywood Boulevard on the south and Mulholland Drive on the north, lying between Laurel Canyon and Runyon Canyon. It was also known as Miller C ...

*** Meadow Brook *** Fall Creek ***

Division Lake Division or divider may refer to: Mathematics * Division (mathematics), the inverse of multiplication *Division algorithm, a method for computing the result of mathematical division Military * Division (military), a formation typically consistin ...

*** Regiment Lake ** Davis Creek *** Mill Flat Creek ** Verplank Creek ** Fox Canyon Creek ** Converse Creek **

** Cabin Creek ** Garlic Meadow Creek ** Rough Creek ** Ten Mile Creek **

Middle Fork Kings River The Middle Fork Kings River is a tributary of the Kings River in Kings Canyon National Park, California, in the southern Sierra Nevada. Draining – almost all of it wilderness – the Middle Fork is one of the largest wholly undeveloped waters ...

*** Deer Canyon Creek *** Brush Canyon Creek *** Tombstone Creek ***

Wren Creek Wrens are a family of brown passerine birds in the predominantly New World family Troglodytidae. The family includes 88 species divided into 19 genera. Only the Eurasian wren occurs in the Old World, where, in Anglophone regions, it is common ...

*** Silver Creek ***

Crown Creek A crown is a traditional form of head adornment, or hat, worn by monarchs as a symbol of their power and dignity. A crown is often, by extension, a symbol of the monarch's government or items endorsed by it. The word itself is used, partic ...

**** Rogers Creek ***

Gorge of Despair A canyon (from ; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), or gorge, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tendency to cu ...

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Crystal Creek Crystal Creek (also known as Saltwater Creek) is a creek in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It runs for 17.5 km, beginning just below Paluma, flowing through the township of Mutarnee and emptying into the Coral Sea. It form ...

*** Blue Canyon Creek *** Lost Canyon Creek *** Rattlesnake Creek *** Alpine Creek *** Dog Creek *** Kennedy Creek *** Dougherty Creek *** Horseshoe Creek *** Goddard Creek ****

Disappearing Creek Disappearing may refer to: * "Disappearing" (The Sinceros song), from the 1981 album ''Pet Rock'' *"Disappearing", a 2013 song by musician Dan Wilson *"Disappearing", a 2017 episode of the Korean series ''My Only Love Song'' See also *Disappear ...

*** Windy Canyon Creek *** Cartridge Creek *** Rimbaud Creek *** Palisade Creek **** Cataract Creek **** Glacier Creek *** Dusy Branch ***

Helen Lake Helen Lake is located in Glacier National Park, in the U.S. state of Montana. Helen Lake is at the head of the Belly River and is situated below Ahern Peak to the west and Ipasha Peak to the northwest. Numerous small streams feed the lake in ad ...

South Fork Kings River The South Fork Kings River is a tributary of the Kings River in the Sierra Nevada of Fresno County, California. The river forms part of Kings Canyon, the namesake of Kings Canyon National Park and one of the deepest canyons in North America wit ...

(This is the actual river that flows through Kings Canyon) *** Lockwood Creek *** Redwood Creek *** Windy Gulch *** Boulder Creek *** Grizzly Creek *** Lightning Creek *** Deer Cove Creek *** Lewis Creek **** Comb Creek ***

Sheep Creek Sheep Creek is a geographical place name. With variations, the name is given to hundreds of bodies of water, roads, canals, reservoirs and populated areas in the United States and other countries. It is the name of a tributary to Lockyear Creek in ...

*** Hotel Creek *** Roaring River ****

Sugarloaf Creek Sugarloaf Creek is a tributary of Tomhicken Creek in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Luzerne County and Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Schuylkill County, in Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately long and flows through Hazle Town ...

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Ferguson Creek Ferguson may refer to: Places Canada *Ferguson Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario) *Ferguson, British Columbia *Mount Ferguson (Ontario), a mountain in Temagami, Ontario United States *Ferguson, a meteorite fall in North Carolina *Ferguson, Arkansas *Fe ...

*** Granite Creek *** Copper Creek *** Avalanche Creek ***

Bubbs Creek Bubbs Creek is a -long tributary of the South Fork Kings River in the Sierra Nevada of California, within Kings Canyon National Park. The creek originates near Junction Pass (east of Forester Pass), in northeastern Tulare County. It flows nort ...

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Sphinx Creek A sphinx ( , grc, σφίγξ , Aeolic Greek, Boeotian: , plural sphinxes or sphinges) is a mythical creature with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wings of a falcon. In Culture of Greece, Greek tradition, the sphinx has the he ...

**** Charlotte Creek **** Cross Creek **** North Guard Creek **** East Creek *** Glacier Creek *** Gardiner Creek *** Woods Creek **** Woods Creek *** Arrow Creek *** Kid Creek

Kaweah River

(Divides into the

, Mill Creek, Packwood Creek and other distributaries in the San Joaquin Valley. Some of these distributaries eventually rejoin to form Cross Creek, which continues southwest to the Tulare Lake bed.) ** Yokohl Creek **

Lime Kiln Creek Lime Kiln Creek is a stream within Tulare County in central California. An alternative name for this creek is Dry Creek. Course The Lime Kiln Creek headwaters are in the Sierra Nevada and flow into the San Joaquin Valley. The creek discharges ...

(Dry Creek) **''

Terminus Dam Terminus Dam is a dam on the Kaweah River in Tulare County, California in the United States, located near Three Rivers about from the western boundary of Sequoia National Park and east of Visalia. The dam forms Lake Kaweah for flood control and ...

Lake Kaweah Lake Kaweah is a reservoir near Lemon Cove in Tulare County, California. The lake is formed by Terminus Dam on the Kaweah River. The river originates in the Sierra Nevada and drains about into Lake Kaweah before flowing towards the San Joaquin ...

'' ** Greasy Creek ** Horse Creek **

South Fork Kaweah River The Kaweah River is a river draining the southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, California in the United States. Fed primarily by high elevation snowmelt along the Great Western Divide, the Kaweah begins as four forks in Sequoia National Park ...

*** Cinnamon Creek *** Grouse Creek ** North Fork Kaweah River *** Yucca Creek *** Eshom Creek *** Redwood Creek *** Dorst Creek *** Stony Creek ** Salt Creek ** East Fork Kaweah River *** Squirrel Creek *** Horse Creek *** Monarch Creek *** Eagle Creek ***

*** Franklin Creek **

Marble Fork Kaweah River The Kaweah River is a river draining the southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, California in the United States. Fed primarily by high elevation snowmelt along the Great Western Divide, the Kaweah begins as four forks in Sequoia National Park ...

*** Elk Creek *** Suwanee Creek *** Halstead Creek *** Sherman Creek *** Wolverton Creek *** Clover Creek *** Stillman Creek *** Horse Creek **

Middle Fork Kaweah River The Kaweah River is a river draining the southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, California in the United States. Fed primarily by high elevation snowmelt along the Great Western Divide, the Kaweah begins as four forks in Sequoia National Park ...

*** Paradise Creek ***

Crescent Creek Crescent Creek is a tributary of the Little Deschutes River in Klamath County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Beginning at Crescent Lake on the eastern flank of the Cascade Range, the river flows generally east through parts of Deschutes National ...

*** Dome Creek *** Panther Creek *** Mehrten Creek *** Castle Creek *** Buck Creek *** Cliff Creek ****

Timber Gap Creek Lumber is wood that has been processed into dimensional lumber, including beams and planks or boards, a stage in the process of wood production. Lumber is mainly used for construction framing, as well as finishing (floors, wall panels, w ...

*** Granite Creek *** Eagle Scout Creek *** Lone Pine Creek *** Hamilton Creek

Tule River

**Deep Creek ***Elk Bayou **''

Success Dam Success Dam is a dam across the Tule River in Tulare County, California in the United States. Serving mainly for flood control and irrigation, the dam is an earthen embankment structure high and long. The dam lies about east of Porterville a ...

, Lake Success'' **

South Fork Tule River The Tule River, also called Rio de San Pedro or Rio San Pedro, is a river in Tulare County, California, Tulare County in the U.S. state of California. The river originates in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada east of Porterville, California ...

***Rocky Creek ***Bear Creek **

North Fork Tule River The Tule River, also called Rio de San Pedro or Rio San Pedro, is a river in Tulare County in the U.S. state of California. The river originates in the Sierra Nevada east of Porterville and consists of three forks, North, Middle and South. The N ...

***Bear Creek ***Backbone Creek ***Pine Creek **

Middle Fork Tule River The Tule River, also called Rio de San Pedro or Rio San Pedro, is a river in Tulare County in the U.S. state of California. The river originates in the Sierra Nevada east of Porterville and consists of three forks, North, Middle and South. The N ...

*** North Fork Middle Fork Tule River ****Alder Creek ***

South Fork Middle Fork Tule River South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

Kern River

**Cottonwood Creek **Lucas Creek **Mill Creek **Erskine Creek **''

Isabella Dam Isabella Dam is an embankment dam located in the Kern River Valley, about halfway down the Kern River course, between the towns of Kernville and Lake Isabella in Kern County, California. Isabella Dam serves agricultural, hydroelectric, and fl ...

Lake Isabella Lake Isabella also called Isabella Lake, is a reservoir in Kern County, California, United States created by the earthen Isabella Dam. It was formed in 1953 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Kern River at the junction of its two f ...

'' **

North Fork Kern River North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' i ...

*** Cannell Creek *** Salmon Creek *** Tobias Creek ***

Brush Creek A brush is a common tool with bristles, wire or other filaments. It generally consists of a handle or block to which filaments are affixed in either a parallel or perpendicular orientation, depending on the way the brush is to be gripped durin ...

*** South Creek *** Dry Meadow Creek *** Peppermint Creek *** Durrwood Creek *** Needlerock Creek ***

Freeman Creek Freeman Creek Grove is a grove of giant sequoias located in Giant Sequoia National Monument in the Sierra Nevada in eastern California. The area is a botanical reserve under administration by the Sequoia National Forest, except for one small inh ...

**** Lloyd Meadows Creek ***

Little Kern River The Little Kern River is a major tributary of the upper Kern River in the Sequoia National Forest, in the southern Sierra Nevada, California. It is one of three streams, along with Volcano Creek and Golden Trout Creek, that harbor beautiful go ...

**** Fish Creek **** Deep Creek **** Deep Creek **** Clicks Creek **** Sagebrush Gulch **** Alpine Creek ***** Mountaineer Creek ***** Pecks Canyon Creek **** Table Meadow Creek **** Soda Springs Creek **** Lion Creek **** Willow Creek **** Tamrack Creek **** Rifle Creek **** Shotgun Creek *****

Pistol Creek Pistol Creek is a tributary of the Little River, located entirely within Blount County, Tennessee. Features Pistol Creek arises from several springs in the Carpenter's Campground section of Blount County, flowing first northeast, then northwest ...

*** Rattlesnake Creek *** Deadman Canyon Creek ***

Soda Creek Soda Creek is a rural subdivision 38 km north of Williams Lake in British Columbia, Canada. Located on the east bank of the Fraser River, Soda Creek was originally the home of the Xat'sull First Nation. Soda Creek Indian Reserve No. 1 is ...

*** Osa Creek *** Hockett Peak Creek *** Grouse Canyon Creek *** Manzanita Canyon Creek *** Ninemile Creek **** Cold Meadow Creek ****

Red Rock Creek Red Rock Creek rises in the middle of Garfield County, Oklahoma, Garfield County in Oklahoma, and proceeds generally east through Garfield and Noble County, Oklahoma, Noble counties on a 45-to-50 mile course taking it just past the Noble-Pawnee Co ...

**** Long Canyon Creek ***** Long Stringer ***** Lost Trout Creek *** Hells Hole Creek *** Angora Creek *** Hell For Sure Creek *** Leggett Creek ***

Grasshopper Creek The Beaverhead River is an approximately tributary of the Jefferson River in southwest Montana (east of the Continental Divide). It drains an area of roughly . The river's original headwaters, formed by the confluence of the Red Rock River and ...

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Little Kern Lake Creek Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt * ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film *The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John P ...

*** Rough Creek *** Coyote Creek ***

Golden Trout Creek Golden Trout Creek is an approximately long tributary of the Kern River, flowing in northeastern Tulare County, California. The creek drains an area of the High Sierra Nevada in the Inyo National Forest. Volcano Creek is a tributary of it. Cou ...

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Laurel Creek Laurel Creek is a river in Delaware County, New York. It flows into the Roods Creek Roods Creek is a river in Delaware County, New York. It begins just south of Cannonsville Reservoir and flows south into Crystal Lake. After exiting Crystal Lak ...

*** Rattlesnake Creek *** Big Arroyo **** Willow Creek ****

**** Lost Canyon Creek *** Funston Creek *** Chagoopa Creek *** Rock Creek **** Siberian Pass Creek *** Red Spur Creek *** Whitney Creek **** Crabtree Creek ***

Wallace Creek Wallace Creek is a stream in Bandera County, Texas and Kerr County, Texas, in the United States. Wallace Creek was named in the 1850s for Bigfoot Wallace, who owned land near there. See also *List of rivers of Texas The list of rivers of Texas ...

*** Kern-Kaweah River **** Picket Creek ***

Tyndall Creek Tyndall (the original spelling, also Tyndale, "Tindol", Tyndal, Tindoll, Tindall, Tindal, Tindale, Tindle, Tindell, Tindill, and Tindel) is the name of an English family taken from the land they held as tenants in chief of the Kings of Engla ...

*** Milestone Creek **

South Fork Kern River The South Fork Kern River is a tributary of the Kern River in the Sierra Nevada of the U.S. state of California. It is one of the southernmost rivers on the western slope of the mountains, and drains a high, relatively dry plateau country of alo ...

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Kelso Creek Kelso may refer to: Places Australia * Kelso, New South Wales * Kelso, Tasmania * Kelso, Queensland Canada * Kelso Conservation Area, Ontario, containing Lake Kelso ** Kelso, a village in Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario New Zealand *Ke ...

*** Canebrake Creek *** Bartolas Creek *** Palome Creek *** Long Valley Creek *** Taylor Creek *** Manter Creek ***

Tibbets Creek Tibbets, a variant spelling of Tibbetts, is an English-language patronymic surname from the given names Tebald or Tibalt. Notable people with the name include: * Daniel Tibbets, American media executive * Eliza Tibbets (1823–1898), introduced se ...

*** Trout Creek *** Fish Creek *** Bitter Creek *** Lost Creek *** Crag Creek *** Honeybee Creek *** Summit Creek *** Cow Canyon Creek *** Snake Creek ***

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Monache Creek The Mono ( ) are a Native American people who traditionally live in the central Sierra Nevada, the Eastern Sierra (generally south of Bridgeport), the Mono Basin, and adjacent areas of the Great Basin. The Eastern mono is often grouped under t ...

*** Schaefer Stringer ***

Strawberry Creek Strawberry Creek is the principal watercourse running through the city of Berkeley, California. Two forks rise in the Berkeley Hills of the California Coast Ranges, and form a confluence at the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Th ...

*** Long Stringer *** Dry Creek ***

Mulkey Creek :Mulkey may refer to: Surnames * Frederick W. Mulkey, a United States Senator from Oregon * John H. Mulkey, American justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois *Kim Mulkey Kimberly Duane Mulkey (born May 17, 1962) is an American college basketball ...

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Movie Stringer A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

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Lewis Stringer Lewis may refer to: Names * Lewis (given name), including a list of people with the given name * Lewis (surname), including a list of people with the surname Music * Lewis (musician), Canadian singer * "Lewis (Mistreated)", a song by Radiohead ...

*** Kern Peak Stringer

Central Coast

Rivers that empty into the

between the Golden Gate and

Point Arguello Point Arguello (Spanish: ''Punta Argüello'') is a headland on the Gaviota Coast, in Santa Barbara County, California, near the city of Lompoc. The area was first used by the United States Navy in 1959 for the launch of military and sounding r ...

, arranged in order from north to south. ''For details of the San Mateo coast, see

.'' *

San Gregorio Creek San Gregorio Creek (''Spanish for:'' Saint Gregory) is a river in San Mateo County, California. Its tributaries originate on the western ridges of the Santa Cruz Mountains whence it courses southwest through steep forested canyons. The San Greg ...

Pescadero Creek Pescadero Creek is a major stream in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties in California, United States. At ,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 15, 2011 it is the longes ...

Butano Creek Butano Creek , name is a stream in San Mateo County, California,USGS
09 ...

*** Little Butano Creek *** South Fork Butano Creek *** North Fork Butano Creek **

Honsinger Creek Honsinger Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed March 15, 2011 stream in San Mateo County, California, and a tributary of Pescadero Creek.Peters Creek ** Fall Creek **

Waterman Creek Waterman Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 15, 2011 southward-flowing stream in southern San Mateo County, California. Rising near Big Basin Way and the Sa ...

San Vicente Creek (Santa Cruz County) San Vicente Creek (Spanish for "St. Vincent") is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 15, 2011 northern California coastal stream which flows entirely within Santa Cr ...

San Lorenzo River The San Lorenzo River is a long river whose headwaters originate in Castle Rock State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains and flow south by southeast through the San Lorenzo Valley before passing through Santa Cruz and emptying into Monterey Ba ...

Carbonera Creek Carbonera Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 15, 2011 watercourse in Santa Cruz County, California, that eventually flows to the San Lorenzo River. The str ...

Zayante Creek Zayante Creek (Ohlone: ''Sayant'') is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 15, 2011 stream within the San Lorenzo River watershed in Santa Cruz County, California, Uni ...

*** Bean Creek *

Pajaro River The Pajaro River (''pájaro'' is ''bird'' in Spanish language, Spanish) is a U.S. river in the Central Coast (California), Central Coast region of California, forming part of the border between San Benito County, California, San Benito and Santa ...

( jump to tributaries) *

Elkhorn Slough Elkhorn Slough is a tidal slough and estuary on Monterey Bay in Monterey County, California. It is California's second largest estuary and the United States' first estuarine sanctuary. The community of Moss Landing and the Moss Landing Power Plan ...

** Carneros Creek * Salinas River ( jump to tributaries) * Carmel River *

Malpaso Creek Malpaso Creek is a small, coastal stream south of Carmel in Monterey County, California, United States. It is generally regarded as the northern border of Big Sur in central coastal California. A low grade bituminous coal deposit was found in upp ...

Little Sur River The Little Sur River is a long river on the Central Coast of California. The river and its main tributary, the South Fork, drain a watershed of about of the Big Sur area, a thinly settled region of the Central California coast where the Sant ...

Big Sur River The Big Sur River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 15, 2011 river on the Central Coast of California. The river drains a portion of the Big Sur area, a thinly ...

Pfeiffer-Redwood Creek Pfeiffer-Redwood Creek is a stream in Big Sur, California, about 26 miles from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, Carmel. It is a tributary to the Big Sur River. The creek feeds the 40-foot (12.2m) Pfeiffer Falls, inside of Julia Pfeiffer Burns State P ...

* McWay Creek * Old Creek * Toro Creek *

Morro Creek Morro Creek is a coastal stream in San Luis Obispo County, in the central region of the U.S. state of California. The watercourse flows from the Santa Lucia Mountains to discharge into the Pacific Ocean, at its mouth on Estero Bay, near the city o ...

* Chorro Creek *

Los Osos Creek Los Osos Creek is a stream in coastal San Luis Obispo County that discharges to Morro Bay. Los Osos Creek rises in the Clark Valley on the slopes of the Irish Hills. After flowing through Clark Valley, Los Osos Creek flows into Los Osos Valley. In ...

San Luis Obispo Creek San Luis Obispo Creek is a stream, about long, in San Luis Obispo County, California. It drains a large coastal watershed that includes the city of San Luis Obispo, emptying into the Pacific Ocean at Avila Beach. Geography San Luis Obispo Creek ...

* Pismo Creek * Arroyo Grande Creek ** Los Berros Creek ** Tar Spring Creek * Santa Maria River ( jump to tributaries) * San Antonio Creek *

Santa Ynez River The Santa Ynez River is one of the largest rivers on the Central Coast of California. It is long, ArcExplorer GIS data viewer. flowing from east to west through the Santa Ynez Valley, reaching the Pacific Ocean at Surf, near Vandenberg Space Fo ...

( jump to tributaries)

Pajaro River

** Pacheco Creek **

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*** Clear Creek ** Tres Piños Creek ** Salsipuedes Creek *** Corralitos Creek

Salinas River

* Salinas River **Gabilan Creek **Chualar Creek ** Arroyo Seco ***Reliz Creek ***Vaqueros Creek ***Santa Lucia Creek ***Tassajara Creek ***Lost Valley Creek **Chalone Creek ***Topo Creek **Monroe Creek **San Lorenzo Creek ***Lewis Creek **Pine Creek **Pancho Rico Creek **Sargent Creek **

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, San Antonio Lake'' ***Jolon Creek ***Mission Creek ***North Fork San Antonio River **

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***'' Nacimiento Dam, Lake Nacimiento'' ***Las Tablas Creek ***Little Burnett Creek ***Los Bueyes Creek ***Gabilan Creek ***Stony Creek ***San Miguel Creek ***Negro Fork **Big Sandy Creek **Estrella River ***Huerhuero Creek ***Cholame Creek (Estrella River), Cholame Creek ****Little Cholame Creek ***San Juan Creek (Estrella River), San Juan Creek **Paso Robles Creek **Atascadero Creek **Santa Margarita Creek **Rinconadas Creek **Pilitas Creek **''Salinas Dam, Santa Margarita Lake'' **Alamo Creek **Toro Creek **Pozo Creek

Santa Maria River

* Santa Maria River **Nipomo Creek **Orcutt Creek **Cuyama River ***''Twitchell Dam, Twitchell Reservoir'' ***Huasna River ****Huasna Creek ****Arroyo Seco ****Stony Creek ****Trout Creek ***Alamo Creek ****Jollo Creek ***Aliso Creek ***Santa Barbara Canyon ***Quatal Canyon ***Apache Canyon ***Alamo Creek **Sisquoc River ***Tepusquet Creek ***La Brea Creek ****North Fork La Brea Creek ****South Fork La Brea Creek ***Manzana Creek ***Water Canyon ***Abel Canyon ***South Fork Sisquoc River

Santa Ynez River

**Salsipuedes Creek (Santa Ynez River), Salsipuedes Creek ***El Jaro Creek **Zaca Creek **Nojoqui Creek **Alisal Creek **Alamo Pintado Creek **Calabazal Creek **Santa Agueda Creek **''Bradbury Dam, Lake Cachuma'' **Cachuma Creek **Santa Cruz Creek **Mono Creek ***Indian Creek **Agua Caliente Creek **Juncal Creek

South Coast

Rivers that empty into the

southeast of Point Arguello, arranged from north to south:

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to Santa Monica, California, Santa Monica

*Goleta Slough **Carneros Creek (Santa Barbara County, California), Carneros Creek **Atascadero Creek (Santa Barbara County, California), Atascadero Creek *Montecito Creek **Cold Springs Creek (Point Arguello), Cold Springs Creek ***East Fork Cold Springs Creek (Point Arguello), East Fork Cold Springs Creek ***West Fork Cold Springs Creek (Point Arguello), West Fork Cold Springs Creek *Oak Creek (California), Oak Creek *San Ysidro Creek *Romero Creek **Picay Creek *Toro Canyon Creek **Garapata Creek *Arroyo Paredon *Santa Monica Creek **Franklin Creek (Santa Monica), Franklin Creek *Carpinteria Creek **Gobernador Creek ***Eldorado Creek ***Steer Creek (California), Steer Creek *Rincon Creek (Southern California), Rincon Creek **Casitas Creek **Sulphur Creek (Rincon Creek), Sulphur Creek **Catharina Creek *Los Sauces Creek *Madrianio Creek *Padre Juan Canyon *Ventura River (List of rivers of California#Ventura River, jump to tributaries) *Santa Clara River (California), Santa Clara River (List of rivers of California#Santa Clara River, jump to tributaries) *Calleguas Creek *Malibu Creek *Topanga Creek

Santa Clara River

*Santa Clara River (California), Santa Clara River **Santa Paula Creek ***Sisar Creek **Boulder Creek **Sespe Creek ***Little Sespe Creek ***Tar Creek ***West Fork Sespe Creek ***Alder Creek ***Park Creek ***Timber Creek ***Trout Creek ***Piedra Blanca Creek ***Rose Valley Creek ***Rock Creek ***Potrero John Creek ***Munson Creek ***Cherry Creek ***Adobe Creek ***Abadi Creek **Hopper Canyon Creek **Piru Creek ***''Santa Felicia Dam, Lake Piru'' ***Devil Canyon ***Canton Canyon ***Agua Blanca Creek ***Fish Creek ***''Pyramid Dam, Pyramid Lake (Los Angeles County, California), Pyramid Lake'' ***Gorman Creek ***Buck Creek ***Snowy Creek ***Smith Fork ***Dry Creek ***Lockwood Creek ***Mutau Creek ****Alamo Creek ****Little Mutau Creek ***Sheep Creek ***Cedar Creek **Castaic Creek ***Charlie Canyon ***Violin Canyon ***''Castaic Dam, Castaic Lake'' ***Elizabeth Lake Canyon ****Pine Canyon ***Fish Canyon ***Salt Creek **Bouquet Canyon **South Fork Santa Clara River ***Placerita Creek ***Newhall Creek **Mint Canyon **Agua Dulce Canyon **Mill Canyon **Acton Canyon **Aliso Canyon **Kentucky Springs Canyon

Ventura River

*Ventura River **Manuel Canyon **Cañada Larga **Cañada de Alisos **Coyote Creek (Ventura County), Coyote Creek ***Lake Casitas ****Laguna Creek (Lake Casitas), Laguna Creek ****Willow Creek (Lake Casitas), Willow Creek ****Santa Ana Creek *****Roble-Casitas Canal ****Poplin Creek ***Deep Cat Lake ***East Fork Coyote Creek ***West Fork Coyote Creek **Matilija Creek ***Rattlesnake Creek (Matilija Creek), Rattlesnake Creek ***Lime Creek (California), Lime Creek ***Murietta Creek ***Middle Fork Matilija Creek ***Upper North Fork Matilija Creek **North Fork Matilija Creek (This and Matilija Creek form the Ventura River's headwaters.)

Santa Monica, California, Santa Monica to San Clemente, California, San Clemente

*Ballona Creek *Dominguez Channel *Los Angeles River (List of rivers of California#Los Angeles River, jump to tributaries) *San Gabriel River (California), San Gabriel River (List of rivers of California#San Gabriel River, jump to tributaries) *Santa Ana River (List of rivers of California#Santa Ana River, jump to tributaries) *Newport Bay (California), Newport Bay and Upper Newport Bay estuary **Big Canyon (Newport Bay) **San Diego Creek ***Peters Canyon Wash ***Agua Chinon Creek ***Serrano Creek **Big Canyon Creek *Laguna Canyon **El Toro Creek **''Laguna Lakes'' *Aliso Creek (Orange County), Aliso Creek **Wood Canyon Creek **Sulphur Creek (California), Sulphur Creek *Salt Creek (Orange County), Salt Creek *San Juan Creek **Trabuco Creek ***Oso Creek ***Tijeras Canyon Creek **Cañada Gobernadora **Bell Canyon **Hot Springs Creek (San Juan Creek), Hot Springs Creek *Prima Deshecha Cañada *Segunda Deshecha Cañada

Los Angeles River

*Los Angeles River **Compton Creek **Rio Hondo (California), Rio Hondo ***Santa Anita Creek **Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County), Arroyo Seco **Verdugo Wash **Burbank Western Channel **Tujunga Wash ***Big Tujunga Creek ****Lucas Creek (Los Angeles County, California), Lucas Creek ****Mill Creek (Los Angeles County, California), Mill Creek ****Alder Creek (Los Angeles County, California), Alder Creek ***Little Tujunga Creek ***Pacoima Wash **Bull Creek (Los Angeles County), Bull Creek **Aliso Creek (Los Angeles County), Aliso Creek ***Limekiln Canyon ***Wilbur Canyon **Browns Canyon Wash ***Diablo Canyon Creek ***Mormon Canyon Creek **Bell Creek (Southern California), Bell Creek ***Dayton Creek ***Woolsey Canyon Creek **Arroyo Calabasas ***Dry Creek (Arroyo Calabasas), Dry Creek

San Gabriel River

*San Gabriel River (California), San Gabriel River **Coyote Creek (San Gabriel River), Coyote Creek ***Carbon Creek (California), Carbon Creek ***Moody Creek ***Fullerton Creek ***La Canada Verde Creek ****La Mirada Creek ***Brea Creek ****San Jose Flood Diversion Channel ****Tonner Canyon ***Imperial Creek **East Fork San Gabriel River **West Fork San Gabriel River

Santa Ana River

*Santa Ana River **Greenville-Banning Channel **Santiago Creek ***Black Star Canyon, Black Star Canyon Creek ***Silverado Canyon (Orange County), Silverado Canyon **Brush Creek (San Bernardino County, California), Brush Creek **Aliso Creek (Santa Ana River), Aliso Creek **Fresno Canyon **Wardlow Wash **Chino Creek ***Mill Creek (Riverside County, California), Mill Creek ****Etiwanda Creek ****Cucamonga Creek ****Deer Creek (Riverside County, California), Deer Creek ***San Antonio Creek (San Bernardino County), San Antonio Creek **Temescal Creek (Riverside County), Temescal Creek ***Cajalco Canyon ****''Lake Mathews'' ***Coldwater Canyon Creek (Riverside County, California), Coldwater Canyon Creek ***''Lake Elsinore'' ****San Jacinto River (California), San Jacinto River *****Salt Creek (Riverside County, California), Salt Creek *****North Fork San Jacinto River *****South Fork San Jacinto River **Warm Creek ***Lytle Creek (California), Lytle Creek ****Cajon Wash ****South Fork Lytle Creek ****Middle Fork Lytle Creek ****North Fork Lytle Creek **City Creek (California), City Creek **Plunge Creek **Mill Creek (Southern California), Mill Creek ***Frustration Creek ***Monkeyface Creek ***Falls Creek (Mill Creek), Falls Creek ***Vivian Creek **Morton Creek **Deep Creek (Santa Ana River), Deep Creek **Government Creek **Warm Springs Creek (Santa Ana River), Warm Springs Creek **Alder Creek (Santa Ana River), Alder Creek **Keller Creek ***Monroe Creek **Crystal Creek (Santa Ana River), Crystal Creek **Breakneck Creek **Bear Creek (Santa Ana River), Bear Creek ***''Big Bear Lake'' **South Fork Santa Ana River **Lost Creek (Santa Ana River), Lost Creek **Wild Horse Creek (Solano County), Wildhorse Creek **Cienaga Seca Creek **Heart Bar Creek **Coon Creek (Santa Ana River), Coon Creek

San Clemente, California, San Clemente to Mexican border

*San Mateo Creek (Southern California), San Mateo Creek **Cristianitos Creek ***Talega Creek ***Gabino Creek ****La Paz Creek **Devil Canyon Creek ***Cold Spring Canyon Creek **Nickel Creek (San Mateo Creek) **Bluewater Creek **Tenaja Creek **Los Alamos Canyon Creek ***Wildhorse Canyon Creek *San Onofre Creek **South Fork San Onofre Creek **North Fork San Onofre Creek ***Jardine Creek *Foley Creek *Horno Creek *Las Flores Creek **Piedra de Lumbre Canyon Creek *Aliso Creek (San Diego County) *French Creek (San Diego County) *Cockleburr Creek *Santa Margarita River (List of rivers of California#Santa Margarita River, jump to tributaries) *San Luis Rey River (List of rivers of California#San Luis Rey River, jump to tributaries) * Loma Alta Creek * Buena Vista Lagoon ** Buena Vista Creek * Agua Hedionda Lagoon ** Agua Hedionda Creek *** Buena Creek (San Diego) *** Escondido Creek *San Dieguito River (List of rivers of California#San Dieguito River, jump to tributaries) *San Diego River (List of rivers of California#San Diego River, jump to tributaries) - historically drained into San Diego Bay, but modern flood control channel bypasses the north shore of the bay and empties directly to the Pacific Ocean) *San Diego Bay outlet (List of rivers of California#San Diego Bay, jump to tributaries) *Tijuana River

Santa Margarita River

*Santa Margarita River **Newton Canyon **Pueblitos Canyon **Wood Canyon **DeLuz Creek **Sandia Creek **Rainbow Creek (Santa Margarita River), Rainbow Creek **Temecula Creek *** Pechanga Creek *** Vail Lake Dam, Vail Lake **** Kolb Creek ***** Arroyo Seco Creek (Temecula Creek), Arroyo Seco Creek **** Wilson Creek (California), Wilson Creek *** Long Canyon *** Cottonwood Creek (California), Cottonwood Creek *** Tule Creek (Temecula Creek), Tule Creek *** Chihuahua Creek *** Rattlesnake Creek (California), Rattlesnake Creek *** Kohler Canyon **Murrieta Creek *** Empire Creek (Murrieta Creek), Empire Creek **** Long Canyon *** Santa Gertrudis Creek **** Tucalota Creek ***** Rawson Canyon **** Long Valley Creek *** Warm Springs Creek (California), Warm Springs Creek **** French Valley Creek *** Kalmia Creek *** Miller Canyon Creek *** Cole Canyon Creek *** Vail Canyon Creek **** Slaughterhouse Canyon *** Bundy Canyon

San Luis Rey River

*San Luis Rey River **West Fork San Luis Rey River

San Dieguito River

*San Dieguito River ** Santa Maria Creek (San Diego) ** Santa Ysabel Creek *** Temescal Creek (San Diego)

San Diego River

*San Diego River **Oak Canyon Creek **Spring Canyon Creek **Forester Creek **Los Coches Creek **San Vicente Creek (San Diego County), San Vicente Creek **Wildcat Canyon Creek **Chocolate Creek **Conejos Creek **Sand Creek (San Diego County, California), Sand Creek **Isham Creek **Boulder Creek (San Diego River), Boulder Creek **Cedar Creek (San Diego County), Cedar Creek **Ritchie Creek **Dye Canyon Creek **Iron Springs Canyon Creek **Temescal Creek (San Diego County), Temescal Creek **Sentenac Creek **Coleman Creek (San Diego County), Coleman Creek ***Baily Creek ***Eastwood Creek

San Diego Bay

Tributaries entering San Diego Bay are arranged from North to South: *Chollas Creek (San Diego County), Chollas Creek *Paradise Creek San Diego County, Paradise Creek *Sweetwater River (California), Sweetwater River *Otay River

Gulf of California

Rivers that empty into the Gulf of California: *Colorado River (U.S.), Colorado River **Milpitas Wash **McCoy Wash **Gene Wash **Chemehuevi Wash **Piute Wash

Carrizo Plain

The Carrizo Plain is a large enclosed valley near the Central Coast which drains into Soda Lake (San Luis Obispo County), Soda Lake. * Wallace Creek

Salton Sea

Rivers that empty into the Salton Sea: *Salt Creek (Salton Sea), Salt Creek **Dos Palmas Creek **Red Canyon Wash *Box Canyon Wash *Whitewater River (California), Whitewater River **North Fork Whitewater River **Middle Fork Whitewater River **South Fork Whitewater River **San Gorgonio River ***Portrero Creek ***Smith Creek ****Montgomery Creek ***Hathaway Creek ***Twin Pines Creek ****Brown Creek ***One Horse Creek ***Snow Creek ****West Fork Snow Creek *****East Branch Snow Creek ****East Fork Snow Creek ****Falls Creek **Garnet Wash ***Super Creek **Mission Creek (Whitewater River), Mission Creek ***North Fork Mission Creek ***South Form Mission Creek ***West Fork Mission Creek **Morongo Wash ***Dry Morongo Wash ****Dry Morongo Creek ***Big Morongo Wash ***Little Morongo Wash **Chino Canyon (California), Chino Canyon Wash **Palm Canyon Wash (Whitewater River tributary), Palm Canyon Wash ***Tahquitz Creek ****Tahquitz Falls **Cathedral Canyon Wash **Deep Canyon Stormwater Channel ***Dead Indian Creek ****Grape Vine Creek ****Ebbens Creek ****Carrizo Creek ****Cat Creek ****Ramon Creek ***Deep Canyon Creek ****Sheep Creek ****Coyote Creek **Thousand Palm Canyon Wash *Barton Canyon Wash **Alano Canyon Wash **Sheep Canyon Wash *Travertine Palms Wash *Garner Wash *Wonderstone Wash *Gravel Wash *Big Wash *Grave Wash *Coral Wash *Palm Wash *Anza Ditch *Arroyo Salada *Tule Wash *San Felipe Creek (Salton Sea), San Felipe Creek **Carrizo Creek (Imperial County, California), Carrizo Creek, Carrizo Wash **Borrego Sink Wash *New River (California), New River **Coyote Wash (California), Coyote Wash *** Palm Canyon Wash (Coyote Wash, California), Palm Canyon Wash *** South Fork Coyote Wash *** Myer Creek (Coyote Wash), Myer Creek ** Pinto Wash *Alamo River

Great Basin

Rivers in the Great Basin, arranged roughly north to south:

Tule Lake

* Lost River **Rock Creek **''Clear Lake Reservoir'' **Willow Creek ***North Fork Willow Creek ***Boles Creek ****Fletcher Creek

Honey Lake

*Susan River (California), Susan River **Willow Creek ***Petes Creek ***Balls Canyon ****Snowstorm Creek ****Secret Creek **Piute Creek **Willard Creek *Skedaddle Creek * Long Valley Creek **Dry Valley Creek *Baxter Creek

Pyramid Lake (Nevada), Pyramid Lake (in Nevada)

*Truckee River **Little Truckee River **Martis Creek **Prosser Creek **Trout Creek (Truckee River), Trout Creek **Cold Creek **''Lake Tahoe'' (tributaries clockwise from Truckee River, Lower Truckee River) ***Griff Creek ***Incline Creek ***North Canyon Creek ***Trout Creek (Lake Tahoe) ***Upper Truckee River ***Taylor Creek (Lake Tahoe), Taylor Creek ***Meeks Creek ***Blackwood Creek (California), Blackwood Creek ***Ward Creek (Lake Tahoe), Ward Creek

Carson Sink (in Nevada)

*Carson River (in Nevada) **East Fork Carson River ***Markleeville Creek ****Hot Springs Creek ****Pleasant Valley Creek ***Monitor Creek ***Silver Creek ***Wolf Creek ***Silver King Creek **West Fork Carson River ***Willow Creek ***Red Lake Creek

Walker Lake (Nevada), Walker Lake (in Nevada)

*Walker River (in Nevada) **East Walker River ***Buckeye Creek ****Swauger Creek ***Robinson Creek ***Green Creek **West Walker River ***Mill Creek ****Lost Cannon Creek ***Deep Creek ***Little Walker River ****Hot Creek ****Molybdenite Creek ***Silver Creek ***Wolf Creek ***Leavitt Creek ***West Fork West Walker River

Mono Lake

Rivers draining into saline and endorheic Mono Lake in eastern California, from north and proceeding counterclockwise: *Cottonwood Creek (Mono Lake), Cottonwood Creek *Rancheria Gulch *Wilson Creek (California), Wilson Creek *Mill Creek (Mono Lake), Mill Creek **Deer Creek (Mill Creek), Deer Creek **South Fork Mill Creek (Mono Lake), South Fork Mill Creek ***Lake Canyon Creek *Dechambeau Creek *Lee Vining Creek **Beartrack Creek **Gibbs Canyon Creek **Warren Fork **Mine Creek (California), Mine Creek ***Glacier Canyon Creek **Saddlebag Creek *Rush Creek (California), Rush Creek **Walker Creek (Central California), Walker Creek **Parker Creek **Alger Creek **Reversed Creek ***Fern Creek (Reversed Creek), Fern Creek ***Yost Creek **Crest Creek *Dry Creek (Mono Lake), Dry Creek

Owens Lake

*Owens River **Lone Pine Creek **Big Pine Creek (California), Big Pine Creek **Bishop Creek (Inyo County), Bishop Creek **Rock Creek (Owens River), Rock Creek ***Pine Creek (California), Pine Creek ****Morgan Creek (California), Morgan Creek **Hot Creek (Mono County, California), Hot Creek **Deadman Creek (Owens River), Deadman Creek

Death Valley

Streams terminating in the Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park. *Salt Creek **Furnace Creek Wash **Emigrant Wash **Death Valley Wash *Amargosa River **Wingate Wash **Salt Creek (Amargosa River tributary), Salt Creek (may carry overflow from the Mojave River basin in extremely wet years) **Rock Valley Wash **Fortymile Wash

Antelope Valley-Fremont Valley watersheds

Streams terminating in various dry lakes in the Antelope Valley and Fremont Valley (Koehn Lake, Rosamond Lake, Rogers Dry Lake and others), draining from the southeastern Tehachapi Mountains and northern San Gabriel Mountains, listed counterclockwise starting from north: *Cottonwood Creek *Cache Creek (Kern County, California), Cache Creek **Sand Creek *Oak Creek *Cottonwood Creek *Pescado Creek *Los Alamos Creek *Amargosa Creek **Pine Creek *Anaverde Creek *Little Rock Creek (Los Angeles County, California), Little Rock Creek **South Fork Little Rock Creek *Big Rock Creek **Pallett Creek **Sandrock Creek **South Fork Big Rock Creek *Mescal Creek *Le Montaine Creek

Soda Lake (San Bernardino County), Soda Lake (Mojave River drainage)

*Kelso Wash *Mojave River **Manix Wash **Daggett Wash **Wild Wash **Buckthorn Wash **Fremont Wash **West Fork Mojave River ***Grass Valley Creek ***East Fork West Fork Mojave River **Deep Creek (Mojave River tributary), Deep Creek ***Kinley Creek ***Willow Creek (Deep Creek tributary), Willow Creek ***Coxey Creek ***Holcomb Creek ****Cox Creek (Holcomb Creek tributary), Cox Creek ***Hooks Creek ****Little Bear Creek ***Shake Creek ***Sheep Creek ***Crab Creek ***Green Valley Creek

References

External links

Friends of the River – California RiversCalifornia Rivers AssessmentPopular Rafting River in California
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