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Pages in category "Creeks of San Mateo County, California" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alambique Creek
The San Mateo Creek drainage basin covers 139 square miles (360 km 2) mostly in San Diego County and partially in Orange County. [15] It shares boundaries with several watersheds – including Segunda Deshecha Cañada to the west, Arroyo San Onofre to the southeast, and streams draining into Lake Elsinore in the northeast.
Redwood Creek is a 9.5-mile-long (15.3 km) [3] perennial stream located in San Mateo County, California, United States which discharges into South San Francisco Bay. [1] The Port of Redwood City, the largest deepwater port in South San Francisco Bay, is situated on the east bank of Redwood Creek near its mouth, where the creek becomes a natural deepwater channel.
Laguna Creek is a perennial stream that flows northwesterly for 2.6 miles (4.2 km) [5] along the San Andreas Fault from Woodside in San Mateo County, California and, after crossing the Phleger Estate and Filoli, enters Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir, [6] where it is a historic tributary to San Mateo Creek. [7]
Another tributary, Laguna Creek, flows northwards from Woodside with its source on Edgewood County Park and Natural Preserve, and historically fed Laguna Grande and then joined San Mateo Creek just upstream from Crystal Springs Canyon, where San Mateo Creek turned east to flow through the canyon. Laguna Grande was submerged when an earthen dam ...
Corte Madera Creek has its origin just northeast of Borel Hill in the Coal Creek Open Space Preserve (part of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, and follows Alpine Road northwesterly along the San Andreas Fault to pick up Coal Creek, Rengstorff Gulch, Damiani Creek, Jones Gulch, Hamms Gulch - all draining the northeastern slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Purisima Creek Another view of the creek. Purisima Creek is an 8.0-mile-long (12.9 km) [1] stream in San Mateo County, California [2] which rises 1.3 miles (2.1 km) north of Sierra Morena, a mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and flows westward to the Pacific Ocean 2.3 miles (3.7 km) south-southeast of Miramontes Point. [3]
Mills Creek is a short eastward-flowing stream whose watershed originates in and around Mills Canyon Park in Burlingame's foothills in San Mateo County, California, United States. [1] The creek runs south of Millbrae Creek and north of Easton Creek watercourses respectively.