Quinto Creek, originally El Arroyo de Quinto,
later Kinto Creek,
is a tributary stream of the
San Joaquin River that now fails to reach the river. Its source drains the slopes of the
Diablo Range
The Diablo Range is a mountain range in the California Coast Ranges subdivision of the Pacific Coast Ranges in northern California, United States. It stretches from the eastern San Francisco Bay area at its northern end to the Salinas Valley are ...
within the
Central Valley of
California
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, United States. The Creek has its source in
Stanislaus County
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a canyon a half mile north of
Pine Springs Hill, a 2386-foot mountain, about 16 miles from its mouth just east of where it emerges from the foothills in
Merced County, shortly ending where it joins the
Outside Canal.
The closest populated place is
Ingomar that is 3.6 miles east of the mouth of Quinto Creek.
[U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data]
The National Map
, accessed November 13, 2011
History
El Arroyo de Quinto was a watering place on
El Camino Viejo
El Camino Viejo a Los Ángeles ( en, the Old Road to Los Angeles), also known as El Camino Viejo and the Old Los Angeles Trail, was the oldest north-south trail in the interior of Spanish colonial Las Californias (1769–1822) and Mexican Alta Cali ...
in the
San Joaquin Valley
The San Joaquin Valley ( ; es, Valle de San Joaquín) is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the San Joaquin River. It comprises seven c ...
between
Arroyo de Mesteño and
Arroyo de Romero.
[Mildred B. Hoover, et al. Historic Spots in California. 3rd edition. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1966, p.202]
References
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Rivers of Stanislaus County, California
Rivers of Merced County, California
El Camino Viejo
Rivers of Northern California