Del Puerto Creek, originally Arroyo de La Puerta (Creek of the Door) is a tributary of the San Joaquin River draining eastern slopes of part of the Diablo Range within the Central Valley of California, United States. The Creek enters the San Joaquin River, about 2 1/2 miles southeast of Grayson, California in Stanislaus County.[2][3]
| Del Puerto Creek Arroyo del Puerto, Puerto Creek | |
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| Etymology | Spanish |
| Native name | Arroyo de La Puerta (Spanish) |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Region | Stanislaus County |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • coordinates | 37°23′50″N 121°27′26″W / 37.39722°N 121.45722°W[1] |
| • elevation | 2,750 ft (840 m) |
| Mouth | mouth |
• location | in Stanislaus County |
• coordinates | 37°32′29″N 121°06′56″W / 37.54139°N 121.11556°W[1] |
• elevation | 30 ft (9.1 m)[1] |
| Basin features | |
| River system | San Joaquin River |
History
editArroyo de La Puerta was a watering place on El Camino Viejo named for the narrow exit a "Puerta" or Door, where the creek emerged from the La Puerta Canyon into the San Joaquin Valley. It provided the southern boundary of Rancho Pescadero (Grimes) and the northern boundary of Rancho Del Puerto.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Del Puerto Creek
- ^ Map of San Joaquin River basin tributaries www.centralvalleymonitoring.org/map accessed November 1, 2011
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed October 31, 2011
- ^ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
External links
edit- CA 130 Del Puerto Canyon accessed November 1, 2011
- STANISLAUS COUNTY BIRDING SITES: Del Puerto Canyon www.stanislausbirds.org accessed November 1, 2011