Clear Creek (Sacramento River)

For other streams named "Clear Creek" in California, see Clear Creek (disambiguation).

Clear Creek
Whiskeytown Lake on Clear Creek
Country	United States
State	California
Region	Shasta Trinity

Tributaries
- right	Crystal Creek, Brandy Creek


Source	Damnation Peak
- location	Trinity Mountains, Shasta-Trinity National Forest
- elevation	5,080 ft (1,548 m)
- coordinates	40°57′31″N 122°31′45″W / 40.95861°N 122.52917°W / 40.95861; -122.52917 ^[1]
Mouth	Sacramento River
- location	Girvan
- elevation	415 ft (126 m)
- coordinates	40°30′20″N 122°22′04″W / 40.50556°N 122.36778°W / 40.50556; -122.36778Coordinates: 40°30′20″N 122°22′04″W / 40.50556°N 122.36778°W / 40.50556; -122.36778 ^[1]

Length	60.6 mi (98 km) ^[2]
Basin	249 sq mi (645 km²) ^[3]
Discharge	for French Gulch, above Whiskeytown Lake
- average	211 cu ft/s (6 m³/s) ^[4]
- max	14,600 cu ft/s (413 m³/s)
- min	2.07 cu ft/s (0 m³/s)

Clear Creek (Ínaam in Karuk) is a tributary of the upper Sacramento River in northern California.

Geography

The creek is 60.6 miles (97.5 km) long,^[2] flowing in southern Siskiyou County and northern Shasta County. Clear Creek is the first major Sacramento River tributary downstream of the Shasta Dam.

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.

History

The site along Clear Creek where Pierson B. Reading discovered gold in 1848 was declared a California Historical Landmark.^[5]

References

1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Clear Creek
1 2 U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 10, 2011
↑ http://www.sacriver.org/aboutwatershed/roadmap/watersheds/westside/clear-creek-watershed
↑ http://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/monthly/?referred_module=sw&site_no=11371000&por_11371000_2=2209235,00060,2,1950-10,1993-09&format=html_table&date_format=YYYY-MM-DD&rdb_compression=file&submitted_form=parameter_selection_list
↑ "Clear Creek". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved 2012-10-14.

Rivers of California's Central Valley watershed (north-to-south)

Sacramento River watershed	Pit River McCloud River Cow Creek Cottonwood Creek Battle Creek Mill Creek Deer Creek Thomes Creek Big Chico Creek Stony Creek Butte Creek Feather River Yuba River Bear River American River Cache Creek Putah Creek

San Joaquin River watershed	Mokelumne River Cosumnes River Calaveras River Stanislaus River Tuolumne River Merced River Mariposa Creek Chowchilla River Fresno River

Tulare Basin	Kings River Kaweah River Tule River White River Poso Creek Kern River

Central Valley Project Infrastructure

Dams	Auburn Dam B.F. Sisk Dam Folsom Dam Friant Dam Lewiston Dam New Melones Dam Nimbus Dam O'Neill Dam Red Bluff Diversion Dam San Justo Dam Shasta Dam Sly Park Dam Spring Creek Dam Sugar Pine Dam Trinity Dam Whiskeytown Dam

Reservoirs	Folsom Lake Millerton Lake Lake Natoma New Melones Lake O'Neill Forebay San Luis Reservoir Sugar Pine Reservoir Shasta Lake Trinity Lake Whiskeytown Lake

Aqueducts and canals	Clear Creek Tunnel Contra Costa Canal Corning Canal Delta Cross Channel Delta–Mendota Canal Folsom South Canal Friant-Kern Canal Madera Canal San Luis Canal Tehama-Colusa Canal

Rivers	American River Clear Creek Chowchilla River Kern River Sacramento River San Joaquin River San Luis Creek Stanislaus River

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