Milliken Creek is an
[U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data]
The National Map
, accessed March 10, 2011 stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...
in
Napa County, California
Napa County () is a county north of San Pablo Bay located in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 138,019. The county seat is the City of Napa. Napa County was one of the original co ...
, that is tributary to the
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 ...
. There are approximately in this
watershed, of which are developed as vineyards.
Milliken Creek rises on the western slopes of the east side of the Napa Valley and flows through the
Silverado Country Club property. Much of this watershed property had once been part of the Mexican land grant
Rancho Yajome
Rancho Yajome was a Mexican land grant in present day Napa County, California given in 1841 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Damaso RodrÃguez, a soldier who did not occupy the property. The rancho is east of the Napa River and north of Napa.
Hi ...
, which had been granted to General
Mariano G. Vallejo. Most of this watershed was wilderness area to at least 1869, and thereafter the lower watershed was begun to be developed as pasture and grazing agricultural uses. In a 1989 stream survey by Earth Metrics, the
steelhead
Steelhead, or occasionally steelhead trout, is the common name of the anadromous form of the coastal rainbow trout or redband trout (O. m. gairdneri). Steelhead are native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific basin in Northeast Asia and N ...
fishery was found to be robust up to and including the Silverado Country Club.
[Earth Metrics Incorporated, " Phase I Environmental Site Assessment, Silverado Country Club, Napa County, California", May, 1989]
See also
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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 ...
References
External links
Napa River watershed
Rivers of Napa County, California
Rivers of Northern California
Tributaries of Napa River
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