Little Dry Creek is a short tributary of the
South Platte River, approximately long,
[U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data]
The National Map
, accessed March 25, 2011 in
Arapahoe County Arapahoe County may refer to:
*Arapahoe County, Colorado
*Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory
Arapahoe County was a county of Kansas Territory in the United States that existed from August 25, 1855, until Kansas's admission into the Union on January ...
,
Colorado in the
United States. The creek drains a suburban area south of
Denver. It rises in
Centennial,
Arapahoe County Arapahoe County may refer to:
*Arapahoe County, Colorado
*Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory
Arapahoe County was a county of Kansas Territory in the United States that existed from August 25, 1855, until Kansas's admission into the Union on January ...
, west of
I-25, and flows generally northwest into
Englewood. It has historically been used for
irrigation and feeds an
aqueduct that runs parallel to it. The creek flows into South Platte just south of West Dartmouth Avenue approximately two tenths of a mile west of its intersection with Santa Fe Drive which is
US 85.
The Little Dry Creek Trail intersects the Highline Canal Trail in
Cherry Hills Village
The City of Cherry Hills Village is a home rule municipality located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 6,442 at the 2020 United States Census. Cherry Hills Village is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO ...
.
The mouth of the creek is noted as the location of the first significant
gold discovery in present-day Colorado. In the first week of July 1858,
Green Russell William Greeneberry "Green" Russell (1818–1877) was an American prospector and miner.
Early life
Green Russell was born in South Carolina but moved with his family to Georgia as a small child. His father James Russell engaged in gold mining duri ...
and his brothers discovered a gold pocket that yielded several hundred dollars' worth of gold.
[Elma Dill Russell Spencer, Green Russell and Gold, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966, 57] The discovery set off the
Colorado Gold Rush
The Pike's Peak Gold Rush (later known as the Colorado Gold Rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 a ...
in the following year.
See also
*
List of rivers of Colorado
References
Colorado Mining Boom
Rivers of Colorado
Rivers of Arapahoe County, Colorado
Englewood, Colorado
Tributaries of the Platte River
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