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s in the

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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 the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...

, 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 S ...

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 conti ...

(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 la ...

( jump to tributaries) * Redwood Creek ( jump to tributaries) * Little River * Mad River ( jump to tributaries)

Smith River

* Smith River **Rowdy Creek **Mill Creek **Myrtle Creek ** South Fork Smith River ***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 **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 d ...

***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 Jenny Creek is a stream in the U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined ...

** 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 ***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 **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 Wooley Creek is a large stream in Siskiyou County, California, a tributary of the Salmon River. Wooley Creek flows from Man Eaten Lake in the Marble Mountain Wilderness of the Klamath National Forest, in a generally southwest direction, to its ...

***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 ***Little North Fork Salmon River ***Russian Creek ***Right Hand Fork North Fork Salmon River **

South Fork Salmon River The South Fork Salmon River is an tributary of the Salmon River in Idaho and Valley Counties in central Idaho. The river drains a rugged, lightly populated wilderness watershed in the Salmon River Mountains. It is the second-largest tributary o ...

***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) ** Prairie Creek (California) ***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) * 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 t ...

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 Humboldt County () is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 136 ...

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

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

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 M ...

*** North Fork Middle Fork Eel River *** 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 ...

*** Rice Fork ** Outlet Creek * Bear River * Mattole River ** North Fork Mattole River ** Upper North Fork Mattole River *

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 dra ...

* Big River * Little 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 * Navarro River **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 ''For details of the Sonoma and Marin 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 f ...

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 *

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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 ...

** Carneros Creek

Suisun Bay

Suisun Slough 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 ...

** Corderia Slough ** Suisun Creek * Montezuma Slough * Pacheco Creek (Contra Costa County) *

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� ...

( jump to tributaries) *

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 ...

( jump to tributaries)

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

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Pinole Creek Pinole Creek is a stream in western Contra Costa County, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, California. The creek has one of the last primarily undeveloped watersheds in the Bay Area. Course The headwaters of Pinole Creek are ...

* San Leandro Creek *

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) * 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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and

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 Sa ...

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 wa ...

(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 ***Lindsey Slough ***Shag Slough *** Yolo Bypass ( jump to tributaries) – manmade floodway, occasionally receiving floodwaters from the Sacramento River via Fremont Weir near

Knights Landing Knights Landing (formerly, Baltimore and East Grafton) is a census-designated place in Yolo County, California, United States, founded by William Knight. It is located on the Sacramento River around 25 miles northwest of Sacramento in the northeas ...

. ***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 ...

( 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 Dry Creek ***Little Butte Creek ***West Branch Butte Creek ** Stony Creek ***'' Black Butte Dam and

Black Butte Lake Black Butte Lake is an artificial lake located in Tehama and Glenn counties in the U.S. state of California. The lake was formed from Stony Creek in 1963 upon the completion of Black Butte Dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The dam is lo ...

'' *** North Fork Stony Creek *** Grindstone Creek ***Elk Creek ***Briscoe Creek *** Little Stony Creek *** North Fork Stony Creek ***Middle Fork Stony Creek ***South Fork Stony Creek ** Big Chico Creek *** Mud Creek **** Rock Creek ** Burch Creek ** Jewett Creek ** Deer Creek ** Thomes Creek ***Mill Creek ***Fish Creek ** Mill Creek ***Little Mill Creek ** Elder Creek ** Willow Creek *** Oat Creek ** Dye Creek ** Antelope Creek ***Little Antelope Creek ** Red Bank Creek ** Reeds Creek ** Dibble Creek ** Payne's Creek **

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 e ...

*** 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 *****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 * Keswi ...

'' ** Spring Creek *** Spring Creek *** Slickrock Creek *** 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 ...

, Shasta Lake'' **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

* 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 flow ...

*** Big Canyon Creek ***Pleasant Creek ***'' Monticello Dam, Lake Berryessa'' ***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, California, Williams, United States, near California State Route 20, State Route 20. The capacity reservoir was created by the construction of the India ...

'' **** Bartlett Creek ***'' Clear Lake'' (inflow streams listed clockwise starting at outlet) **** Kelsey Creek ****Adobe Creek **** Forbes Creek **** Rodman Slough ***** 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 t ...

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 , it ...

'' ** North Fork American River ***

Middle Fork American River The Middle Fork American River is one of three forks that form the American River in Northern California. It drains a large watershed in the high Sierra Nevada west of Lake Tahoe and northeast of Sacramento in Placer and El Dorado Counties, bet ...

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

Gerle Creek Gerle is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Andrew Gerle, American composer and pianist * Christophe Antoine Gerle (1736–c. 1801), French revolutionist * Elisabeth Gerle (born 1951), Swedish philosopher * Hans Gerle (c.1500–1570 ...

*****'' Hell Hole Dam,

Hell Hole Reservoir Hell Hole Reservoir is an artificial, crescent-shaped lake in the Sierra Nevada mountain range west of Lake Tahoe in California, United States. The lake is about long when at full capacity. The lake was created in 1966 with the completion of L ...

'' *****Five Lakes Creek ****Duncan Canyon ****'' French Meadows Dam,

French Meadows Reservoir French Meadows Reservoir is a manmade lake northeast of Foresthill, California, United States on the Middle Fork of the American River. The reservoir is long, wide, with of shoreline. Tahoe National Forest manages the recreational facilitie ...

'' ***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 ***Weber Creek ***Greenwood Creek ***Dutch Creek ***Rock Creek ***Slab Creek *** Silver Creek ****South Fork Silver Creek ****Little Silver Creek ****'' Union Valley Dam,

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 rockf ...

'' ****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 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 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 o ...

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 ( jump to tributaries) ** Honcut Creek ***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 ser ...

and

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 th ...

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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 foothill ...

***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 ****Rush Creek **** Indian Creek *****Wolf Creek ***** Lights Creek *****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 *** South Fork Feather River ****Sucker Run ****Lost Creek ****'' Little Grass Valley Dam, Little Grass Valley Reservoir'' ***

Fall River Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 United States Census, making it the List of municipaliti ...

***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

=Yuba River

= * Yuba River **Dry Creek **Deer Creek ***Squirrel Creek **'' Englebright Dam,

Englebright Lake Englebright Lake is an 815 acre reservoir on the Yuba River, impounded by Englebright Dam, in the Sierra Nevada, Northern California, United States. The reservoir stores 45,000 acre feet of water with nearly 24 miles of shoreline. It is located ...

'' **

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'' *** Fordyce Creek ****North Creek ***Rattlesnake Creek ***Castle Creek **

Middle Yuba River The Middle Yuba River is one of the three main forks of the Yuba River in Northern California in the United States. The river rises at the crest of the Sierra Nevada, and flows generally west through canyons to join the North Yuba River near No ...

***Oregon Creek ***Kanaka Creek ***Wolf Creek ***East Fork Creek ***'' Jackson Meadows Dam, Jackson Meadows Reservoir'' ** North Yuba River ***''

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 ...

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 Bulla ...

'' *** Slate Creek *** Canyon Creek ****Little Canyon Creek ***Goodyears Creek *** Downie River **** Pauley Creek ***** 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 S ...

***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 Burney Falls is a waterfall on Burney Creek, within McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park, in Shasta County, California. The water comes from underground springs above and at the falls, which are 129 feet high, and provides an almost cons ...

** Hat Creek *** Rising River ***Lost Creek **

***

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 ...

****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 ***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 into the Central Valley and ul ...

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

(historical) **

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 hig ...

( jump to tributaries) ** Hospital Creek ** Ingram Creek **

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 ***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 into the San Joaquin Valley. It is most well known for its swift and steep course through ...

( jump to tributaries) **

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

*** Los Banos Creek **** 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 *** Fresno River ****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 out ...

(also carries floodwaters diverted from the Kings River via North Fork distributary) **''

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 proj ...

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

'' **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 ...

Mammoth Pool Reservoir Mammoth Pool Reservoir is a reservoir on the San Joaquin River in the Sierra Nevada, within the Sierra National Forest in California. It creates the border between Fresno County and Madera County. It is about north-northeast of Fresno. Hyd ...

'' **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 de ...

, 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 Thousand Island Lake is a large alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada, within the Ansel Adams Wilderness in eastern Madera County, California. The lake is named for the many small rocky islands that dot its surface. Theodore Solomons probably estab ...

(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 St ...

*** Sutter Creek ***Rancheria Creek ***North Fork Dry Creek ***South Fork Dry Creek **'' Camanche Dam, Camanche Lake'' **''

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 D ...

, Pardee Reservoir'' ** North Fork Mokelumne River ***Tiger Creek ***Blue Creek *** Bear River ***'' Salt Springs Dam,

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 ...

'' ***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

* Calaveras River **'' New Hogan Dam, 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

**''

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. ...

Tulloch Reservoir Tulloch may refer to: People with the surname * Alexander Bruce Tulloch (1838–1920), Major-general in the British Army, author * Bert Tulloch, English footballer *Bitsie Tulloch, American actress * Francis Tulloch (born 1940), Jamaican politici ...

'' ** 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 Melone ...

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 V ...

'' **Mormon Creek ** Angels Creek **Coyote Creek ** South Fork Stanislaus River ***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 ***'' Beardsley Dam, Beardsley Lake'' ***Mill Creek ***'' Donnells Dam, 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 *** Griswold Creek ****Soap Creek ****Skull Creek ***Mill Creek *** Beaver Creek ***Highland Creek ****'' New Spicer Meadow Dam, New Spicer Meadow Reservoir'' ***Bloods Creek ***Silver Creek

Tuolumne River

** Dry Creek **'' New Don Pedro Dam, Lake Don Pedro'' **Moccasin Creek **Sullivan Creek ***Woods Creek ** North Fork Tuolumne River **

Clavey River The Clavey River is a tributary of the Tuolumne River in the Sierra Nevada, located in the Stanislaus National Forest and Tuolumne County, California. The river is long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline ...

***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'' ***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 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 nort ...

** Rancheria Creek *** Breeze Creek ***Stubblefield Canyon ** Piute Creek ** Register Creek ** Ten Lakes Basin Creek ** Cathedral Creek *** South Fork Cathedral Creek ** Return Creek ***Matterhorn Canyon ** Conness Creek *** Alkali Creek ** Dingley Creek ** Delaney Creek ** Budd Creek **

Unicorn Creek The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. In European literature and art, the unicorn has for the last thousand years or ...

** Dana Fork Tuolumne River *** Gaylor Creek *** Parker Pass Creek **** Mono Pass Creek ** Lyell Fork Tuolumne River *** Rafferty Creek **** Evelyn Lake Creek *** Ireland Creek *** Kuna Creek

Merced River

** Bear Creek ** Dry Creek **'' New Exchequer Dam and Lake McClure'' ** North Fork Merced River ** South Fork Merced River *** Alder Creek *** Bishop Creek **** Elevenmile Creek ***** Rail Creek ** Bridalveil Creek **

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 Geograp ...

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 th ...

*** Snow Creek ** Illilouette Creek ** Fletcher Creek *** Lewis Creek **** Florence Creek ** Red Peak Fork *** Red Devil Creek ** Lyell Fork *** Hutching Creek ** Merced Peak Fork ** Triple Peak Fork *** 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 (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 **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 Bakersfie ...

( 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 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 the ...

'' ** 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 ...

** 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 rise ...

*** 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), ...

****

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 *** Rancheria Creek *** Teakettle Creek *** Long Meadow Creek ***''

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 Courtright Reservoir is a reservoir in Fresno County, California. The reservoir is at an elevation of 8,170 feet (2,490 m) in the Sierra National Forest, in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, bordering the John Muir Wilderness and the Dinkey Lakes W ...

'' **** Dusy Creek *** Post Corral Creek **** Burnt Corral Creek *** Flemming Creek *** Nichols Canyon *** Meadow Brook *** Fall Creek *** Division Lake *** Regiment Lake ** Davis Creek *** Mill Flat Creek ** Verplank Creek ** Fox Canyon Creek ** Converse Creek ** Spring Creek ** Cabin Creek ** Garlic Meadow Creek ** Rough Creek ** Ten Mile Creek ** Middle Fork Kings River *** Deer Canyon Creek *** Brush Canyon Creek *** Tombstone Creek *** Wren Creek *** Silver Creek *** Crown Creek **** Rogers Creek *** Gorge of Despair ***

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 for ...

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

Cartridge Creek Cartridge Creek is a creek near Fresno, California. It terminates in the Middle Fork Kings River. The creek is part of Kings Canyon National Park Kings Canyon National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, in Fres ...

*** 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 addi ...

** South Fork Kings River (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 *** Hotel Creek *** Roaring River ****

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

***** Ferguson Creek *** Granite Creek *** Copper Creek *** Avalanche Creek *** Bubbs Creek **** Sphinx Creek **** 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 St. John's River, 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,

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 *** 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 *** Elk Creek *** Suwanee Creek *** Halstead Creek *** Sherman Creek *** Wolverton Creek *** Clover Creek *** Stillman Creek *** Horse Creek ** Middle Fork Kaweah River *** 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 *** Granite Creek *** Eagle Scout Creek ***

Lone Pine Creek Lone may refer to: People *Lone (given name), a given name (including a list of people with this name) *Lone (musician), Matt Cutler, an electronic musician from Nottingham, United Kingdom *Lone (surname), a surname (including a list of people wi ...

*** 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 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 ...

***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 ...

***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 ...

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

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 f ...

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 *** South Creek *** Dry Meadow Creek *** Peppermint Creek *** Durrwood Creek *** Needlerock Creek *** Freeman Creek **** 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 Rifle Creek is a stream in Garfield County in the U.S. state of Colorado. Rifle Creek is a tributary to the Colorado River. Rifle Creek starts at the confluence of West Rifle Creek and East Rifle Creek and the junction is within the waters of t ...

**** Shotgun Creek ***** Pistol Creek *** 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 ****

Long Canyon 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 mensu ...

***** 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 H ...

*** Little Kern Lake Creek *** Rough Creek *** Coyote Creek *** Golden Trout Creek ***

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 ...

*** Rattlesnake Creek ***

Big Arroyo The Great Western Divide is a Sierra Nevada mountain range that forms part of the border between the Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. Some of the summits of the Great Western Divide reach well over . The High Sierra Trail crosses the ran ...

**** 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 i ...

*** Kern-Kaweah River **** Picket Creek *** Tyndall Creek *** 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 al ...

*** Kelso Creek *** 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 ***

*** Monache Creek *** 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. ...

*** Long Stringer *** Dry Creek *** Mulkey Creek *** Movie Stringer ***

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

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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 Grego ...

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 longest ...

** Butano Creek *** Little Butano Creek *** South Fork Butano Creek *** North Fork Butano Creek ** Honsinger Creek ** Peters Creek ** Fall Creek ** Waterman Creek * San Vicente Creek (Santa Cruz County) * San Lorenzo River ** Carbonera Creek ** Zayante Creek *** Bean Creek *

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

( jump to tributaries) * Elkhorn Slough ** Carneros Creek * Salinas River ( jump to tributaries) * Carmel River * Malpaso Creek * Little Sur River * Big Sur River ** Pfeiffer-Redwood Creek * 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 ...

* Chorro Creek * Los Osos Creek * 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 ( jump to tributaries)

Pajaro River

** Pacheco Creek **

San Benito River The San Benito River is a long river flowing northwesterly between the Diablo Range and the Gabilan Range, on the Central Coast of California.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map acces ...

*** 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 **

San Antonio River The San Antonio River is a major waterway that originates in central Texas in a cluster of springs in midtown San Antonio, about 4 miles north of downtown, and follows a roughly southeastern path through the state. It eventually feeds into the ...

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San Antonio Dam San Antonio Dam (National ID CA00813) is an earthen dam on the San Antonio River in Monterey County, California in the United States. The dam impounds Lake San Antonio, a reservoir with a capacity of , located west of Camp Roberts. History San ...

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

Nacimiento River , name_etymology = , image = Nacimiento_River_1.jpg , image_caption = The river downstream of Nacimiento Dam , image_size = 300 , map = Salinas River watershed.png , map_size = 300 , ...

***'' Nacimiento Dam,

Lake Nacimiento Lake Nacimiento is an long lake on the Nacimiento River in northern San Luis Obispo County, California. The lake contains many arms including Snake Creek and Dip Creek, nearer the dam, and the central Las Tablas and Franklin Creeks. Due to t ...

'' ***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

* 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:

Point Arguello 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
{{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Rivers Of California Rivers of California, * Lists of landforms of California, Rivers Lists of rivers of the United States by state, California