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watercourse A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a variety of local or regional names. Long large streams are ...
s (rivers, creeks, sloughs, etc.) in the
San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...
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 that tributaries entering nearest the sea appear first. Numbers in parentheses are
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north of the
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Sonoma Coast

Watercourses which feed into the
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in
Sonoma County Sonoma County () is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, its population was 488,863. Its county seat and largest city is Santa Rosa. It is to the north of Marin County and the south of Mendocino ...
north of
Bodega Head Bodega Head is a small promontory on the Pacific coast of northern California in the United States. It is located in Sonoma County at , approximately northwest of San Francisco and approximately west of Santa Rosa. The peninsula, which is ap ...
, listed from north to south:


The Gualala River and its tributaries

*
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 ...
(253221) ** North Fork (229679) – flows from
Mendocino County Mendocino County (; ''Mendocino'', Spanish for "of Mendoza) is a county located on the North Coast of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,601. The county seat is Ukiah. Mendocino County consists whol ...
. ** South Fork (235010) ***Big Pepperwood Creek (219227) – flows from Mendocino County. ***Rockpile Creek (231751) – flows from Mendocino County. ***Buckeye Creek (220029) ****Little Creek (227239) ****North Fork Buckeye Creek (229647) *****Osser Creek (230143) *****Roy Creek (231987) ****Soda Springs Creek (234853) *** Wheatfield Fork (237594) ****Fuller Creek (223983) *****Sullivan Creek (235693) *****Boyd Creek (219738) *****North Fork Fuller Creek (229676) *****South Fork Fuller Creek (235005) ****Haupt Creek (225023) ****Tobacco Creek (236406) ****Elk Creek (223108) **** House Creek (225688) *****Soda Spring Creek (234845) *****Allen Creek (218142) *****Pepperwood Creek (230514) ******Danfield Creek (222007) *******Cow Creek (221691) ******Jim Creek (226237) ******Grasshopper Creek (224470) *****Britain Creek (219851) *****Cedar Creek (220760) ****Wolf Creek (238086) ****Tombs Creek (236448) ***Marshall Creek (228139) ****McKenzie Creek (228391)


Northern Sonoma Coast

Watercourses which feed into the Pacific Ocean in Sonoma County between the Gualala and Russian Rivers, numbered from north to south: #Deadman Gulch (222120) #Cannon Gulch (220545) #Chinese Gulch (221069) #Phillips Gulch (230598) #Miller Creek (228727) #Warren Creek (237257) #Wildcat Creek (237784) #Stockhoff Creek (235498) #Timber Cove Creek (236355) #Kolmer Gulch (226673) #Fort Ross Creek (223705) #Russian Gulch Creek (1723332) #*East Branch Russian Gulch (222861) #**Middle Branch Russian Gulch (228574) #**West Branch Russian Gulch (237436)


The Russian River and its tributaries

* Russian River (267200) – flows from Mendocino County. **Willow Creek (237879) **Sheephouse Creek (232916) **Orrs Creek (230114) **Freezeout Creek (223863) **
Austin Creek Austin Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed March 9, 2011 southward-flowing stream in the mountains of western Sonoma County, California which empties into th ...
(218466) ***Kohute Gulch (226672) ***Kidd Creek (226569) ***East Austin Creek (222846) ****Black Rock Creek (219403) ****Gilliam Creek (224171) *****Schoolhouse Creek (232673) ****Thompson Creek (236259) ****Gray Creek (224517) *****Lawhead Creek (234146) ****Devil Creek (222279) ****Conshea Creek (221468) *****Tiny Creek (236385) ****Sulphur Creek (235703) ***Ward Creek (237225) ****Big Oat Creek (219223) ****Blue Jay Creek (219496) ****Pole Mountain Creek (230900) ***Bearpen Creek (218919) ***Red Slide Creek (231390) ** Dutch Bill Creek (222756) ***Lancel Creek (226842) ****North Fork Lancel Creek (229689) **Smith Creek (233315) **Hulbert Creek (253871) ***Mission Creek (246001) **Livereau Creek (227433) **Fife Creek (223491) ***Redwood Creek (231420) **Pocket Canyon (230836) ***Mays Canyon (228268) **Hobson Creek (225380) **
Green Valley Creek Green Valley Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed March 9, 2011 stream in Sonoma County, California, United States, which springs from the hills above the Bohemian ...
(224576) *** Atascadero Creek (218443) ***Purrington Creek (231100) **
Mark West Creek Mark West Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 9, 2011 stream that rises in the Mayacamas Mountains of Sonoma County, California, United States. Tributaries ...
(228118) *** Windsor Creek (238013) ****Pool Creek (230927) ***
Laguna de Santa Rosa The Laguna de Santa Rosa is a wetland complex that drains a watershed encompassing most of the Santa Rosa Plain in Sonoma County, California, United States. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has issued a safe e ...
(226766) ****
Santa Rosa Flood Control Channel Santa Rosa Creek is a 22-mile-long (35 km) stream in Sonoma County, California, which rises on Hood Mountain and discharges to the Laguna de Santa Rosa by way of the Santa Rosa Flood Control Channel. This article covers both the creek and t ...
(232565) *****Abramson Creek *****
Piner Creek Piner Creek is a stream in northeast Santa Rosa, California, United States () which originates as an outlet of Fountaingrove Lake. Piner Creek discharges to Santa Rosa Creek which in turn joins the Laguna de Santa Rosa. The upper reaches in ...
******Paulin Creek ***** Santa Rosa Creek (232563) ******
Matanzas Creek Matanzas Creek is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 9, 2011 year-round stream in Sonoma County, California, United States, a tributary of Santa Rosa Creek. Course ...
(228216) *******
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 ...
(235241) *******South Fork Matanzas Creek (235025) ******
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 ...
(231600) ******Salt Creek (232297) ****
Blucher Creek Blucher Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 9, 2011 stream that rises in the hills south of Sebastopol, California, United States, and empties into the Lag ...
(219480) ****
Five Creek Five Creek is a westward flowing stream that rises in the city of Rohnert Park, California, United States and discharges to the Laguna de Santa Rosa. The creek is channelized as it flows through the city and runs in an artificially rectilinear fas ...
(223565) **** Hinebaugh Creek (225359) ***** Crane Creek (221795) ****
Washoe Creek Washoe Creek is a perennial stream located in Sonoma County, California. It is about long and discharges to the Laguna de Santa Rosa. Washoe Creek rises in the low lying Meacham Hills southwest of the city of Cotati. It descends to the northea ...
(237318) *****Gossage Creek (224355) **** Copeland Creek (221533) ***Porter Creek (230952) ***Humbug Creek (225753) ***Van Buren Creek (236996) **Porter Creek (230951) ***Press Creek (231039) ** Dry Creek (222623) – flows from Mendocino County. ***West Slough ****
Foss Creek Foss Creek is a rain-fed watercourse in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is considered a tributary of the Russian River. Foss Creek traverses the city of Healdsburg, from north to south, originating near Passalacqua Road and flowing into Dry Cre ...
(1657225) *****Norton Slough (1657226) ***Mill Creek (228686) ****Felta Creek (223436) ****Wallace Creek (237193) ****Palmer Creek (230265) ***Pine Ridge Canyon (230719) ***Kelley Creek (226456) ***Crane Creek (221794) ***Grape Creek (224441) ****Wine Creek (238037) ***Peña Creek (230478) ****Chapman Branch (220914) ****Boyer Creek (219744) ****Pechaco Creek (230457) ****Redwood Log Creek (231443) ***Dutcher Creek (222780) ***Fall Creek (223368) ***Schoolhouse Creek (232676) ***Warm Springs Creek (237246) ****Little Warm Springs Creek (227406) ****Picnic Creek (230623) ****Seven Oaks Creek (232821) ****Bear Creek (218806) ****Rancheria Creek (231215) *****Little Rancheria Creek (234172) ****Strawberry Creek (235583) ****Little Strawberry Creek (227381) ****Willow Springs Creek (237952) ****Wild Cattle Creek (237748) ****Bearpen Creek (218918) ****Fall Creek (223365) ***Brush Creek (219923) ****Yorty Creek (238273) ***Smith Creek (233325) ***Cherry Creek (233660) ***Galloway Creek (224021) – flows from Mendocino County. ***Rail Creek (231170) **
Maacama Creek Maacama Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 9, 2011 stream in northern Sonoma County, California, United States, U.S.A., which empties into the Russian River ...
(227883) ***Franz Creek (223840) ****Bidwell Creek (219108) ***Redwood Creek (231421) ****Foote Creek (223653) ****Kellogg Creek (226462) ****Yellowjacket Creek (238248) ***Briggs Creek (219834) ****Little Briggs Creek (227202) ****Coon Creek (221498) ***McDonnell Creek (228350) **Sausal Creek (232603) ***George Young Creek (224117) ***Burns Creek (220208) ***Grapevine Creek (224446) **Gird Creek (224187) **Miller Creek (228731) **Gill Creek (224167) **Crocker Creek (221835) **Barrelli Creek (218695) **Porterfield Creek (230956) **Cloverdale Creek (221256) ** Big Sulphur Creek (254619) ***Little Sulphur Creek (227384) ****North Branch (229605) ****Lovers Gulch Creek (227735) ****Anna Belcher Creek (218287) ***Frasier Creek (223845) – flows from Mendocino County. ***Squaw Creek (235310) ****Alder Creek (218097) – flows from Mendocino County. ****Hummingbird Creek (225758) – flows from Mendocino County. **Ash Creek (218427) – flows from Mendocino County.


Central Sonoma Coast

Watercourses which feed into the Pacific Ocean in Sonoma County between
Goat Rock Beach Goat Rock Beach is a sand beach in northwestern Sonoma County, California, United States. This landform is a sub-unit of Sonoma Coast State Beach, owned and managed by the State of California. At the northern terminus of Goat Rock Beach is the mou ...
and
Bodega Head Bodega Head is a small promontory on the Pacific coast of northern California in the United States. It is located in Sonoma County at , approximately northwest of San Francisco and approximately west of Santa Rosa. The peninsula, which is ap ...
, numbered from north to south: #Scotty Creek (232742) #*Rough Creek (231923) # Salmon Creek (232281) #*Finley Creek (223507) #*Coleman Valley Creek (221373) #*Fay Creek (223419) #*Tannery Creek (236018) #*Nolan Creek (229570) #*Thurston Creek (236333)


Bodega Bay Bodega Bay ( es, Bahía Bodega) is a shallow, rocky inlet of the Pacific Ocean on the coast of northern California in the United States. It is approximately across and is located approximately northwest of San Francisco and west of Santa Ros ...

Watercourses which feed into Bodega Bay, numbered clockwise from Bodega Head to Sand Point: #Cheney Gulch (220937) #Shorttail Gulch (233054) # Estero Americano (223257) #*Ebabias Creek (253711) #*
Americano Creek Americano Creek is a long westward-flowing stream in the California counties of Sonoma and Marin. It flows into the Estero Americano, a long estuary, and thence to the Pacific Ocean. This article covers both watercourses. Course Americano C ...
(254563) #
Estero de San Antonio Estero de San Antonio is a stream in the northern California counties of Marin and Sonoma which empties into Bodega Bay. Course The Estero springs just north of the Marin-Sonoma county line (from a hill overlooking Bloomfield, California) and ...
(253212) #* Stemple Creek (253932)


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 ...
Coast

Watercourses which feed into the Pacific Ocean in
Marin County Marin County is a county located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 262,231. Its county seat and largest city is San Rafael. Marin County is acros ...
south of Sand Point, listed from north to south:


Tomales Bay Tomales Bay is a long, narrow inlet of the Pacific Ocean in Marin County in northern California in the United States. It is approximately long and averages nearly wide, effectively separating the Point Reyes Peninsula from the mainland of Mar ...

Watercourses which feed into Tomales Bay, numbered clockwise from Sand Point to Tomales Point: # Walker Creek (255208) #*Keys Creek (254852) #*Chileno Creek (254740) #*Frink Canyon (223952) #*Verde Canyon (237053) #*Salmon Creek (232280) #*Arroyo Sausal (254577) #Millerton Gulch (228754) #Grand Canyon (224386) #Tomasini Canyon (236446) #
Lagunitas Creek Lagunitas Creek is a -longU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed December 27, 2017 northward-flowing stream in Marin County, California. It is critically important to the large ...
(255208) #*Olema Creek (234410) #*
Nicasio Creek Nicasio Creek is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 9, 2011 stream in Marin County, California, United States and is the primary tributary of Lagunitas Creek, which ...
(229534) #**Halleck Creek (224814) #***Redwood Canyon (231415) #*
San Geronimo Creek San Geronimo Creek is a stream in Marin County, California, United States, which feeds into Lagunitas Creek below Kent Lake. Course The creek rises in the hills west of the town of Fairfax. It descends northward to Woodacre, where it turns w ...
(232400) #*Big Carson Creek (219156) #*Cataract Creek (220721) #*East Fork Lagunitas Creek (222888) #White Gulch (237641)


Point Reyes Peninsula Point Reyes (, meaning "Point of the Kings") is a prominent cape and popular Northern California tourist destination on the Pacific coast. Located in Marin County, it is approximately west-northwest of San Francisco. The term is often applied t ...

Watercourses which feed into the Pacific Ocean between Tomales Point and
Bolinas Bolinas is an unincorporated coastal community and census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 1,483. It is located on the California coast, approximately (straight line dist ...
, numbered north to south: #Home Ranch Creek (225499) #Glennbrook Creek #Santa Maria Creek #Coast Creek (233695) #Alamere Creek (233404) #Arroyo Hondo


Bolinas Lagoon Bolinas Lagoon is a tidal estuary, approximately in area, located in the West Marin region of Marin County, California, United States, adjacent to the town of Bolinas. It is a part of the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. In 1974 ...

Watercourses which feed into Bolinas Lagoon, numbered clockwise from Bolinas to Stinson Beach: # Pine Gulch Creek (234476) #* Copper Mine Gulch (221541) #
Wilkins Gulch Wilkins Gulch is a valley in western Marin County, California, United States, located northwest of Pike County Gulch. It is associated with a small stream. The stream descends the western slope of Bolinas Ridge, crosses State Route 1, and dra ...
(237829) #
Pike County Gulch Pike County Gulch is a coastal valley in Marin County, California, United States, which is associated with a small stream. It is located between Wilkins Gulch (to the northwest) and Audubon Canyon (to the southeast). The stream descends the wes ...
(230651) #
Audubon Canyon Audubon Canyon Ranch (ACR) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit environmental conservation and education organization headquartered in Stinson Beach, Marin County, California, on the eastern shore of Bolinas Lagoon. The lands upon which ACR operates ar ...
(218457) #Volunteer Canyon (1808968) #
Morses Gulch Morses Gulch is a coastal valley in Marin County, California, United States. It descends the western slope of Bolinas Ridge and drains into Bolinas Lagoon.McKinnan Gulch (228412) # Stinson Gulch (235491)


Southern Marin Coast

Watercourses which feed into the Pacific Ocean between Stinson Beach and the Golden Gate, numbered north to south: #Webb Creek (237375) #Lone Tree Creek (227525) #Cold Stream (221345) # Redwood Creek (231428) #*Fern Creek (223455) #Tennessee Valley (255127)


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 ...
and its tributaries


Northern San Francisco Bay

Watercourses which feed into San Francisco Bay and its tributary bays between the Golden Gate and Point San Pedro, numbered south to north: # Coyote Creek (221733) #
Arroyo Corte Madera del Presidio Arroyo Corte Madera del Presidio is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 9, 2011 year-round stream in southern Marin County, California, United States. This watercour ...
(254575) #*Old Mill Creek (229976) #**Cascade Creek (220661) #San Clemente Creek (217925) #
Corte Madera Creek (Marin County, California) Corte Madera Creek is a short stream which flows southeast for in Marin County, California. Corte Madera Creek is formed by the confluence of San Anselmo Creek and Ross Creek in Ross and entering a tidal marsh at Kentfield before connectin ...
(258743) #*Tamalpais Creek (235983) #* Ross Creek (231905) #* San Anselmo Creek (232364) #**Sleepy Hollow Creek (249570) #**Fairfax Creek (223329) #**Carey Camp Creek (220595) #** Cascade Creek (220663) #
San Rafael Creek San Rafael Creek is a watercourse in Marin County, California, United States that discharges to San Rafael Bay, a small embayment of the San Francisco Bay. The mouth of San Rafael Creek is a channelized estuary through an industrial area. San Raf ...
(232467)


Northern

San Pablo Bay San Pablo Bay is a tidal estuary that forms the northern extension of San Francisco Bay in the East Bay and North Bay regions of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California. Most of the Bay is shallow; however, there is a deep water c ...
and
Carquinez Strait The Carquinez Strait (; Spanish: ''Estrecho de Carquinez'') is a narrow tidal strait in Northern California. It is part of the tidal estuary of the Sacramento and the San Joaquin rivers as they drain into the San Francisco Bay. The strait is ...

Watercourses which feed into San Pablo Bay or the Carquinez Strait between Point San Pedro and the Benicia-Martinez Bridge, numbered west to east: #Gallinas Creek (224018) #*South Fork Gallinas Creek (235006) # Miller Creek (228730) #
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(229802) #*Arroyo San Jose (218406) #*Bowman Canyon (219721) #
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, ...
(253749) #*Black John Slough (219372) #** Rush Creek (232023) #**Basalt Creek (218716) #*Tule Slough (236607) #* San Antonio Creek (253817) #*Schultz Slough (232702) #* Adobe Creek (217990) #* Washington Creek #**East Washington Creek #* Lynch Creek (234217) #*Capri Creek #*
Lichau Creek Lichau Creek is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 9, 2011 southwest-flowing stream in Sonoma County, California, United States, which flows through the town of ...
(234157) #**Willow Brook (269133) #
Tolay Creek Tolay Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 10, 2011 southward-flowing stream in southern Sonoma County, California, United States, which flows through Tolay La ...
(236414) #
Sonoma Creek , name_etymology = , image = Beaver Dam Sonoma Creek, Sonoma Thanksgiving 2009.jpg , image_caption = Beaver dam on Sonoma Creek at Maxwell Farms Regional Park in Sonoma, California, 2009 , image_size = 300 , ma ...
(234882) #*Napa Slough (229414) #*East Branch (222851) #*Second Napa Slough (232776) #**Third Napa Slough (236244) #***Railroad Slough (231180) #***Steamboat Slough (235419) #****Schell Slough (232647) #*****Schell Creek (232645) #******
Arroyo Seco Creek Arroyo Seco is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 10, 2011 tributary stream to Schell Creek in southern Sonoma County, California, United States. In Spanish ''ar ...
(218408) #*******Nathanson Creek (229419) #*******Haraszthy Creek (224911) #*China Slough (221058) #* Fowler Creek (223770) #**Rodgers Creek (231809) #***Champlin Creek (220901) #**Felder Creek (223431) #***Lewis Creek (262425) #**
Carriger Creek Carriger Creek is a stream Sonoma County, California. Southwest of the city of Sonoma, California, its name changes to Fowler Creek. This article covers both parts of the creek. Carriger Creek springs from the eastern slope of Sonoma Mountai ...
(220639) #*Agua Caliente Creek (218327) #*Hooker Creek (225537) #**Wilson Creek (237965) #***Butler Canyon (220277) #***Whitman Canyon (237706) #*
Calabazas Creek Calabazas Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 10, 2011 stream in the Sonoma Valley, California, United States, that rises in the southern Mayacamas Mounta ...
(254687) #**Stuart Creek (235613) #* Graham Creek (224379) #*
Yulupa Creek Yulupa Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 10, 2011 southeast-flowing perennial stream that rises on the southeastern flanks of the northern Sonoma Mountains ...
(238301) #* Bear Creek (218803) #
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 ...
(255110) #*Napa Slough (229414) #**Devils Slough (222329) #**Huichica Creek (225741) #*White Slough (237683) #**
Rindler Creek Rindler Creek is a stream that rises on Sulfur Springs Mountain in southwestern Solano County, California. A stream restoration project has been conducted to reverse the damage of cattle overgrazing. One goal of this project is to enhance habita ...
(231615) #***
Blue Rock Springs Creek Blue Rock Springs Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 10, 2011 stream that rises on Sulfur Springs Mountain in southwestern Solano County, California. A bicy ...
(219520) #*American Canyon Creek (218229) #* Carneros Creek (220626) #*Suscol Creek (235838) #*Tulucay Creek (255164) #**Kreuse Creek (226687) #**Murphy Creek (229347) #* Milliken Creek (234307) #**Sarco Creek (232579) #*Napa Creek (229413) #**Redwood Creek (231429) #*Soda Creek (234828) #*Dry Creek (233800) #*Conn Creek (233707) #**Rector Creek (234547) #**Sage Creek (234602) #***Clear Creek (233687) #**Chiles Creek (233665) #***Moore Creek (229017) #*Bale Slough (218624) #*Sulphur Creek (235712) #*York Creek (238269) #*Mill Creek (228685) #*Ritchey Creek (252565) #*Nash Creek (229417) # Southampton Creek


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 wate ...

Watercourses which feed into Lake Berryessa, numbered clockwise from
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 ...
: #Wragg Creek (238192) #Capell Creek (220581) #Smittle Creek (234731) #Trout Creek (236563) #Pope Creek (234501) #*Maxwell Creek (228249) #**Hardin Creek (261085) #**Burton Creek (220252) #Stone Corral Creek (253935) #Butts Creek (233590) – flows from Lake County. #*Routan Creek (234593) – flows from Lake County. #*
Snell Creek Snell Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 10, 2011 watercourse in Napa County, California. It is situated approximately five miles north of Aetna Springs an ...
(234752) #
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 flow ...
(234522) – flows from Lake County. #*Hunting Creek (225798) #Cement Creek (220810) #Dyer Creek (222789) #Eticuera Creek (223262) #*Adams Creek (217966) #*Nevada Creek (229475) #*Zim Zim Creek (238320)


Suisun Bay Suisun Bay ( ; Wintun for "where the west wind blows") is a shallow tidal estuary (a northeastern extension of the San Francisco Bay) in Northern California. It lies at the confluence of the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River, forming the ent ...
and Grizzly Bay

Watercourses which feed into Suisun Bay and Grizzly Bay, listed clockwise from Benicia to Martinez: *Sulphur Springs Creek (235735) *Suisun Slough (253945) ** Cordelia Slough (221556) ***Green Valley Creek (224575) ****Wild Horse Creek (237756) *Montezuma Slough (234323) *
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 ...
(1654949) – flows from Sacramento County **
American River , name_etymology = , image = American River CA.jpg , image_size = 300 , image_caption = The American River at Folsom , map = Americanrivermap.png , map_size = 300 , map_caption ...
*
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 ...
(273488) – flows from Sacramento County ''For tributaries of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, see
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.'' *Mount Diablo Creek (234334) *Hastings Slough (225003) **Seal Creek * Pacheco Creek (230192) ** Grayson Creek (224526) ***Murderer's Creek **
Walnut Creek A walnut is the edible seed of a drupe of any tree of the genus ''Juglans'' (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, ''Juglans regia''. Although culinarily considered a "nut" and used as such, it is not a true bo ...
(237199) ***Galindo Creek (224011) ***Grayson Creek (224526) ***San Ramon Creek (232471) ****Las Trampas Creek (226900) *****Grizzly Creek (224628) *****Lafayette Creek (226748) *****Tice Creek (236338) ****Green Valley Creek (224574) ****Sycamore Creek (235918) ****Bollinger Canyon Creek (254643) *Peyton Creek


Southern Carquinez Strait and

San Pablo Bay San Pablo Bay is a tidal estuary that forms the northern extension of San Francisco Bay in the East Bay and North Bay regions of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California. Most of the Bay is shallow; however, there is a deep water c ...

Watercourses which feed into the Carquinez Strait or San Pablo Bay between the Benicia-Martinez Bridge and Point San Pablo, numbered east to west: #Arroyo del Hambre (255059) #* Alhambra Creek (218119) #Bull Valley Creek #Elkhorn Creek #Edwards Creek # Cañada del Cierbo (220523) # Rodeo Creek (231801) #
Refugio Creek Refugio Creek (pronounced REH-foo-GEE-oh from Spanish ''refugio'' meaning: shelter) is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 15, 2011 watercourse running through the Re ...
(231480) #*Ohlone Creek # Pinole Creek (230743) #
Garrity Creek Garrity Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 15, 2011 creek in Richmond, California's Hilltop neighborhood. It runs into San Pablo Bay. It is sometimes call ...
(224083) #
Rheem Creek Rheem Creek is a urban stream in western Contra Costa County, California, which empties into San Pablo Bay south of Point Pinole. The creek rises from Rolling Hills Cemetery and passes through Rollingwood, the campus of Contra Costa Community Col ...
#* Karlson Creek #
San Pablo Creek , name_native_lang = , name_other = , name_etymology = , image = SanPabloCreek4.JPG , image_caption = San Pablo Creek just behind the El Sobrante Library , image_size = 300 , map = ...
(232457) #*Lauterwasser Creek (226957) #*Bear Creek (218800) # Castro Creek (220706) #*
Herman Slough Herman may refer to: People * Herman (name), list of people with this name * Saint Herman (disambiguation) * Peter Noone (born 1947), known by the mononym Herman Places in the United States * Herman, Arkansas * Herman, Michigan * Herman, Minne ...
#* Wildcat Creek (237791)


Northeastern San Francisco Bay

Watercourses which feed into the east shore of San Francisco Bay between Point San Pablo and the Bay Bridge, numbered north to south: # Meeker Slough # Baxter/Stege Creek # Fluvius Innominatus/Central Creek #
Cerrito Creek Cerrito Creek is one of the principal watercourses running out of the Berkeley Hills into San Francisco Bay in northern California. It is significant for its use as a boundary demarcation historically, as well as presently. In the early 19th ce ...
(254734) # Middle/Blackberry Creek # Schoolhouse Creek #
Codornices Creek Codornices Creek (sometimes spelled and/or pronounced "Cordonices"), long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 15, 2011 is one of the principal creeks which runs out o ...
(254755) #* Marin/Village Creek # Strawberry Creek (235581) #Potter Creek #Derby Creek # Temescal Creek (236092)


Eastern San Francisco Bay

Watercourses which feed into the east shore of San Francisco Bay between the Bay Bridge and the
San Mateo–Hayward Bridge The San Mateo–Hayward Bridge (commonly called the San Mateo Bridge) is a bridge crossing the American state of California's San Francisco Bay, linking the San Francisco Peninsula with the East Bay. The bridge's western end is in Foster City, ...
, numbered from north to south: # Glen Echo Creek (224215) #Indian Gulch (225879) #
Sausal Creek The Sausal () is a small mountain range in the southwestern parts of Austria's state Styria. It thrusts up from the northern banks of the Sulm valley, west of the district town of Leibnitz. Its highest point, the summit of the Demmerkogel, rises ...
(232602) #* Shephard Creek (232958) #* Palo Seco Creek (230277) #Peralta Creek (230520) #Lion Creek (227172) #*Arroyo Viejo (218410) #Elmhurst 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 ...
(232428) #* Redwood Creek (231419) #* Miller Creek #*Kaiser Creek (254842) #**Buckhorn Creek (220052) #*Moraga Creek #* Indian Creek (225858) #
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 ...
(232434) #* Castro Valley Creek #** Chabot Creek #* Crow Creek (233742) #** Cull Creek (221904) #**Norris Creek (229589) #**Bolinas Creek (219604) #* Palomares Creek (230280) #* Eden Canyon Creek (222968) # Sulphur Creek (235709) # Ward Creek (237227)


Southeastern San Francisco Bay

Watercourses which feed into the east shore of San Francisco Bay between the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge and the Dumbarton Bridge, listed north to south: *Mount Eden Creek (229145) **North Creek (229624) * Alameda Creek (1654946) **Dry Creek (222606) **Stonybrook Canyon (235553) ** Arroyo de la Laguna (218389) ***Vallecitos Creek (236963) ***Sinbad Creek (233170) ***
Arroyo Valle Arroyo Valle or Arroyo Del Valle is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 15, 2011 westward-flowing stream that begins in northeastern Santa Clara County, California ...
(255060) **** Arroyo Bayo (218394) **** San Antonio Creek (232367) ***
Arroyo Mocho Arroyo Mocho is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 15, 2011 stream which originates in the far northeastern corner of Santa Clara County and flows northwesterly into ...
(218404) ****
Arroyo Las Positas Arroyo Las Positas is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 15, 2011 westward-flowing watercourse in Alameda County, California, which begins at the confluence of Arro ...
(218402) ***** Arroyo Seco (218407) *** South San Ramon Creek (235109) ****Alamo Creek (218055) ****Coyote Creek (221729) **Sheridan Creek (234690) **San Antonio Creek (1654950) ***Indian Creek (225864) ***Apperson Creek (218316) ***La Costa Creek ***Williams Gulch (237847) **Pirates Creek (230775) **Haynes Gulch (225064) **Welch Creek ** Calaveras Creek (254688) *** Arroyo Hondo (233435) ****
Isabel Creek Isabel Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed March 4, 2016 perennial stream which flows northwesterly along the eastern then northern flank of Mount Hamilton in Sa ...
(254822) *****Long Branch (227538) *****Bonita Creek (219639) **** Smith Creek (233323) *****Sulphur Creek


Southern San Francisco Bay

Watercourses which feed into the San Francisco Bay south of the Dumbarton Bridge, listed clockwise: *Newark Slough (229511) **Plummer Creek * Mowry Slough (229219) *
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 ...
(229250) ** Laguna Creek ***Agua Caliente Creek (218017) ***Cañada Del Aliso (220520) ***Sabercat/Sabre Cat Creek ****Washington Creek ***
Mission Creek Mission Creek (from Spanish: ''misión'') is a river in San Francisco, California. Once navigable from the Mission Bay inland to the vicinity of Mission Dolores, where several smaller creeks converged to form it, Mission Creek has long since bee ...
(228831) ****Morrison Creek (229079) ****Vargas Creek * Coyote Creek (255083) **Scott Creek (232723) **Line C – man-made drain, connecting creeks which historically dispersed into marsh ***Toroges Creek (236468) ***Agua Fria Creek (218018) ** Lower Penitencia Creek ***Calera Creek ****
Berryessa Creek __NOTOC__ Berryessa Creek is a seasonal creek in northeastern San Jose and Milpitas. Its main source is located in the Los Buellis Hills slightly west of Felter Road. Berryessa Creek has many tributaries, including Piedmont Creek, Calera Creek, ...
*****Arroyo de los Coches *****Piedmont Creek ** Upper Penitencia Creek ***Arroyo Aguague **Lower Silver Creek ***Miguelita Creek ***Babb Creek (218488) ***South Babb Creek (234920) ***Thompson Creek **Upper Silver Creek ** Las Animas Creek (226891) *** San Felipe Creek (234625) * Guadalupe River (253220) ** Canoas Creek (254700) ** Los Gatos Creek (227672) **Ross Creek (231908) ** Alamitos Creek (218054) ***
Arroyo Calero Arroyo often refers to: * Arroyo (creek), an intermittently dry creek Arroyo may also refer to: People * Arroyo (surname) Places United States ;California * Arroyo Burro Beach, a public beach park in Santa Barbara County, California * Arroyo ...
(218395) ** Guadalupe Creek (253236) *Guadalupe Slough (224698) **
Saratoga Creek Saratoga Creek is a north-northeast flowing creek in Santa Clara County, California. History Saratoga Creek was originally called Arroyo Quito and then Campbell Creek after immigrant William Campbell, who operated a sawmill in 1848 in "Campbell's ...
(253826) ***
San Tomas Aquino Creek San Tomas Aquinas Creek, known locally as San Tomas Aquino Creek, is a streamU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 25, 2011 that heads on El Sereno mountain in El Sereno ...
(232477) **** Smith Creek **
Calabazas Creek Calabazas Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 10, 2011 stream in the Sonoma Valley, California, United States, that rises in the southern Mayacamas Mounta ...
(220373) *** Prospect Creek (253793) *** Regnart Creek * Stevens Creek (1667885) **Heney Creek **Gold Mine Creek **Indian Creek **Bay Creek **Gold Mine Creek **Swiss Creek **Montebello Creek *
Permanente Creek Permanente Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed February 3, 2013 stream originating on Black Mountain in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is the na ...
(234449) ** Hale Creek (224788) * Adobe Creek (217989) ** Purisima Creek (253797) **
Barron Creek Barron Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. , accessed November 13, 2011 northward-flowing stream originating in the lower foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains in Los Altos Hills in Sant ...
(239012) *
Matadero Creek Matadero Creek is a stream originating in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The creek flows in a northeasterly direction for until it enters the Palo Alto Flood Basin, where it joins Ado ...
(228215) **
Arastradero Creek Arastradero Creek is a mainly seasonal U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 21, 2011 generally north by northeastward-flowing stream originating in the Palo Alto footh ...
(218335) ** Deer Creek (253877) *
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 ...
(232397) ** Corte Madera Creek (254779) ***
Sausal Creek The Sausal () is a small mountain range in the southwestern parts of Austria's state Styria. It thrusts up from the northern banks of the Sulm valley, west of the district town of Leibnitz. Its highest point, the summit of the Demmerkogel, rises ...
(1654941) **** Alambique Creek (218044) **** Dennis Martin Creek (228169) ** Bear Creek (218820) *** Dry Creek ***
West Union Creek West Union Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed September 17, 2011 stream originating on the east slope of Kings Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains, in San Mateo ...
** Los Trancos Creek (254941)


Western San Francisco Bay

Watercourses which feed into the west shore of San Francisco Bay between the Dumbarton Bridge and the Golden Gate, listed south to north: * Redwood Creek (255118) ** Arroyo Ojo de Agua (238759) * Cordilleras Creek (221557) *Pulgas Creek (234518) *Belmont Creek (254600) *Laurel Creek (226937) *Borel Creek **Beresford Creek *Leslie Creek * San Mateo Creek (1655002) **
San Andreas Creek San Andrés Creek (''Spanish for'': St. Andrew's Creek), now called San Andreas Creek, is a perennial stream that flows southeasterly along the San Andreas Fault from Sweeney Ridge in San Mateo County, California, providing the inflow to and outf ...
** Laguna Creek **Polhemus Creek (230901) *Poplar Creek *Burlingame Creek **Upper Terrace Creek **Ralston Creek **Cherry Canyon Creek *Sanchez Creek (232485) **Lower Terrace Creek * Easton Creek (233826) *
Mills Creek Mills Creek may refer to: *Mills Creek (Missouri), a stream in Missouri *Mills Creek, a San Francisco Bay Area stream with mouth at Arroyo León Arroyo León (Spanish for "Lion Creek") is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high ...
(234308) *Millbrae Creek *Green Hills Creek *
San Bruno Creek San Bruno Creek (Spanish for: "St. Brun") is an intermittent stream that rises on the eastern slopes of the Northern Santa Cruz Mountains in San Mateo County, California, USA. The headwaters descend a relatively steep canyon east of Skyline Boulev ...
(234623) **El Zanjon * Colma Creek (221398) **Twelvemile Creek *
Guadalupe Valley Creek Guadalupe Creek or Guadalupe Valley Creek is a short eastward-flowing stream whose watershed originates just east of the highest peak of San Bruno Mountain in San Mateo County, California, United States. It courses through San Bruno Mountain St ...
(224700) *Visitation Valley Creek *Yosemite Creek *
Islais Creek Islais Creek or Islais Creek Channel (previously known as Du Vrees Creek, Islais Channel and Islais Swamp) is a small creek in San Francisco, California. The name of the creek is derived from a Salinan Native American word "''slay''" or "''islay' ...
(254827) **Precita Creek *
Mission Creek Mission Creek (from Spanish: ''misión'') is a river in San Francisco, California. Once navigable from the Mission Bay inland to the vicinity of Mission Dolores, where several smaller creeks converged to form it, Mission Creek has long since bee ...
** Hayes Creek ** Arroyo Dolores * El Polin Creek (Tennessee Valley) *
Dragonfly Creek Dragonfly Creek is a stream in the Presidio of San Francisco, 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 is th ...


Pacific Coast south of the Golden Gate


San Francisco Coast

Watercourses which feed into the Pacific Ocean between the Golden Gate and Thornton Beach, from north to south: * Lobos Creek (227449)


Northern San Mateo Coast

Watercourses which feed into the Pacific Ocean between Thornton Beach and Miramontes Point, numbered north to south: #Milagra Creek #
Calera Creek Calera Creek (Pacifica, California) is a stream in the Rockaway Beach and Vallemar neighborhoods of Pacifica, California. The creek is named for the limestone deposits and historical quarry located nearby. With headwaters in the Sweeney Ridge ...
# Rockaway Creek #
San Pedro Creek San Pedro Creek (Spanish for ''St. Peter'') is a perennial stream in the City of Pacifica, San Mateo County, California in the San Francisco Bay Area whose tributaries originate on Sweeney Ridge in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Mont ...
(234639) #* North Fork (234373) #* Middle Fork (234291) #* South Fork (235049) # San Vicente Creek (234642) #
Denniston Creek Denniston Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed March 15, 2011 coastal stream in western San Mateo County, California. Denniston Creek rises on the western slopes of ...
(233779) #
Arroyo de en Medio Arroyo de en Medio (Spanish for "in the middle creek") is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 15, 2011 coastal stream in western San Mateo County, California. Arroyo ...
(233428) #
Naples Creek Naples Creek is a stream in San Mateo County, California, United States that rises on the western slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains and discharges to the Pacific Ocean. The specific point of discharge is onto Naples Beach, a unit of the Half Mo ...
# Frenchmans Creek (233909) #*
Locks Creek Locks 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. It is the largest tributary of Frenchmans Creek, a larger stream.
(234179) # Pilarcitos Creek (253889) #*
Arroyo León Arroyo León (Spanish for "Lion 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 which is a tributary of Pilarcitos Creek ...
(233436) #**
Mills Creek Mills Creek may refer to: *Mills Creek (Missouri), a stream in Missouri *Mills Creek, a San Francisco Bay Area stream with mouth at Arroyo León Arroyo León (Spanish for "Lion Creek") is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high ...
(228769) #* Madonna Creek (227924) #*
Apanolio Creek Apanolio Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 15, 2011 southward-flowing stream in San Mateo County, California, United States which is a tributary of Pilarcit ...
(233421) #* Corinda Los Trancos Creek (233718) #* Nuff Creek (234390) #**North Branch #**South Branch


Central San Mateo Coast

Watercourses which feed into the Pacific Ocean between Miramontes Point and Pigeon Point, numbered north to south: # Cañada Verde Creek (1786133) # Purisima Creek (253798) #* Whittemore Gulch (237717) #*Walker Gulch (237174) #* Grabtown Gulch (224371) #* Soda Gulch (234832) # Lobitos Creek (254929) #* Schoolhouse Creek (232672) #* Rogers Gulch (231823) #
Tunitas Creek Tunitas 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. ''Tunitas'' is Spanish for "little prickly pears". An all-w ...
(236624) #* Dry Creek (222617) #* East Fork (222904) #*
Rings Gulch Rings Gulch is a valley in San Mateo County, California. It contains a stream which is a tributary of Tunitas Creek.
(234568) #* Mitchell Creek (228864) #
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 ...
(232403) #* Coyote Creek (221728) #* Clear Creek (221185) #*
El Corte de Madera Creek El Corte de Madera Creek (Spanish for:'' The Cutting of Wood'') is a small river in the Santa Cruz Mountains, San Mateo County, northern California. It is a tributary of San Gregorio Creek. The creek flows about , from its source in Kings Moun ...
#* Bogess Creek (219583) #* Kingston Creek (226613) #*
Harrington Creek Harrington Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary of San Gregorio Creek.Alpine Creek (254555) #**
Mindego Creek Mindego Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary of San Gregorio Creek.La Honda Creek (226707) #**
Woodruff Creek Woodruff Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary to La Honda Creek, which in turn is tributary to San Gregorio Creek.Weeks Creek (237398) #*** Spanish Ranch Creek (235161) # Pomponio Creek (230913) # Long Gulch (227559) # Dairy Gulch (221978) #
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 ...
(234452) – flows from Santa Cruz County #*
Butano Creek Butano Creek , name is a stream in San Mateo County, California,USGS
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(220266) #**Little Butano Creek (227209) #**South Fork (234979) #* Bradley Creek (219762) #** Chandler Gulch (220906) #*
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.Big Chicken Hollow Big Chicken Hollow is a valley in San Mateo County, California. It contains a fork of Honsinger Creek.
(219158) #**
Little Chicken Hollow Little Chicken Hollow is a valley in San Mateo County, California. It contains a stream which is a fork of Honsinger Creek.Newell Gulch (229514) #* Roy Gulch (231988) #* Bloomquist Creek (219470) #* Peterson Creek (230568) #*
McCormick Creek McCormick Creek is a stream in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary of Pescadero Creek.
(228321) #* Hoffman Creek (225382) #*Jones Gulch (226336) #*
Harwood Creek Harwood Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California. It is a tributary of Pescadero Creek.
(224997) #*
Dark Gulch Dark Gulch is a valley in San Mateo County, California associated with a small stream that is a tributary of Pescadero Creek.Carriger Creek Carriger Creek is a stream Sonoma County, California. Southwest of the city of Sonoma, California, its name changes to Fowler Creek. This article covers both parts of the creek. Carriger Creek springs from the eastern slope of Sonoma Mountai ...
(220638) #*
Keyston Creek Keyston Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary of Pescadero Creek.
(226557) #*
Tarwater Creek Tarwater Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California, and is a tributary of Pescadero Creek. Pescadero Creek Park sits atop a deposit of natural gas and oil. Natural gas occasionally bubbles up through seams near Hoffman Creek producing ...
(236033) #*
Rhododendron Creek Rhododendron Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary of Pescadero Creek.Peters Creek (230562) #** Evans Creek (223287) #** Bear Creek (218799) #**
Lambert Creek Lambert Creek is a tributary of Peters Creek in San Mateo County, California in the United States.
(226834) #* Fall Creek (223364) #* Slate Creek (233236) #* Oil Creek (229945) #* Little Boulder Creek (227199) – flows from Santa Cruz County #*
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 ...
(237336) #Arroyo de los Frijoles (218391) #Spring Bridge Gulch (235229) #Yankee Jim Gulch (238228)


Southern San Mateo Coast

Watercourses which feed into the Pacific Ocean south of Pigeon Point, numbered north to south: #Gazos Creek (224105) – flows from Santa Cruz County. #*Old Womans Creek (229991) – flows from Santa Cruz County. #*Old Womans Creek (1701701) #Whitehouse Creek (237690) – flows from Santa Cruz County. #Cascade Creek (220660) – flows from Santa Cruz County. #Green Oaks Creek (224554) – flows from Santa Cruz County. #Año Nuevo Creek (254567) – flows from Santa Cruz County. #*Cold Dip Creek (252424) – flows from Santa Cruz County. #Finney Creek (223512) – flows from Santa Cruz County. #Elliot Creek (223153) – flows from Santa Cruz County.


See also

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Hydrography of the San Francisco Bay Area The Hydrography of the San Francisco Bay Area is a complex network of watersheds, marshes, rivers, creeks, reservoirs, and bays predominantly draining into the San Francisco Bay and Pacific Ocean. Bays The largest bodies of water in the Bay Ar ...
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List of lakes in the San Francisco Bay Area This list of lakes in the San Francisco Bay Area groups lakes, ponds, and reservoirs by county. Numbers in parentheses are Geographic Names Information System feature ids. Alameda County * Almond Reservoir () * Berryman Reservoir () * Bethany ...
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List of rivers of California This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of California, 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 th ...


References


External links


Guide to San Francisco Bay Area Creeks
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Water Water (chemical formula ) is an inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms (in which it acts as a ...
Watercourses A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a variety of local or regional names. Long large streams ar ...