Clear Creek (Sacramento River tributary)
| Clear Creek | |
|---|---|
 Whiskeytown Lake on Clear Creek | |
 | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Region | Shasta Trinity |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Damnation Peak |
| • location | Trinity Mountains, Shasta-Trinity National Forest |
| • coordinates | 40°57′31″N 122°31′45″W / 40.95861°N 122.52917°W[3] |
| • elevation | 5,080 ft (1,550 m) |
| Mouth | Sacramento River |
• location | Girvan |
• coordinates | 40°30′20″N 122°22′04″W / 40.50556°N 122.36778°W[3] |
• elevation | 415 ft (126 m) |
| Length | 60.6 mi (97.5 km)[1] |
| Basin size | 249 sq mi (640 km2)[4] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | French Gulch, above Whiskeytown Lake[2] |
| • average | 211 cu ft/s (6.0 m3/s)[2] |
| • minimum | 2.07 cu ft/s (0.059 m3/s) |
| • maximum | 14,600 cu ft/s (410 m3/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • right | Crystal Creek, Brandy Creek |
Clear Creek (Ínaam in Karuk) is a tributary of the upper Sacramento River in northern California.[5]
Geography
The creek is 60.6 miles (97.5 km) long,[1] flowing in southern Siskiyou County and northern Shasta County. Clear Creek is the first major Sacramento River tributary downstream of the Shasta Dam.[6]
Clear Creek originates in the Trinity Mountains, between Shasta Lake and Trinity Lake in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, and flows into Whiskeytown Lake reservoir, impounded by Whiskeytown Dam. Past the reservoir, the stream bed continues south until its confluence with the Sacramento River. The Spring Creek Tunnel bypasses that section and delivers water from Whiskeytown Lake directly to Keswick Reservoir, both part of the Central Valley Project.[5][7]
California Historical Landmark
The site along Clear Creek where Pierson B. Reading discovered gold in 1848 was declared a California Historical Landmark No 78, on December 6, 1932, at 40°35′32″N 122°28′40″W / 40.5922°N 122.4777°W. [8] Reading's Bar in Clear Creek is also a California Historical Landmark, No. 32.[9]
See also
References
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2016-06-30 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 10, 2011
- ^ a b "USGS Surface Water data for USA: USGS Surface-Water Monthly Statistics".
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Clear Creek
- ^ "Clear Creek Watershed | Sacramento River Watershed Program". Archived from the original on 2013-10-14.
- ^ a b "Clear Creek Watershed – Sacramento River Watershed Program". sacriver.org.
- ^ "California whitewater Clear Creek Sacramento Tributary". www.riverfacts.com.
- ^ "Restoration brings salmon, people back to Clear Creek | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service". FWS.gov. November 12, 2020.
- ^ "Clear Creek". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
- ^ "CHL # 32 Reading's Bar Shasta". www.californiahistoricallandmarks.com.