Potrero Creek is a minor waterway of Riverside County, California in the United States.[1][2] Potrero Creek has a 5-mile (8.0 km)-long course and flows south through the San Jacinto River basin.[2] Potrero Creek drains about 35 square miles (91 km2) of the San Jacinto Mountains.[3] Potrero joins the San Jacinto River near California State Route 79,[3] at Gilman Hot Springs, California.[4] There are reportedly a small group of cave shelters along Potrero Creek in Massacre Canyon, south of Beaumont, on what was called the Stanton Ranch in 1962.[5] Massacre Canyon supposedly gets its name from a battle that took place around 1540, when Temecula people massacred defenders of a village (with associated chia plantings) of the tribe now known as the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians, which was called Ivah and was located at what is now Gilman Hot Springs, California.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Potrero Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
- ^ a b "Gazetteer of surface waters of California ... Prepared under the direction of John C. Hoyt, by B.D. Wood, in cooperation with the State Water Commission ... v.1-3". HathiTrust. hdl:2027/uc1.c048447224. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
- ^ a b Simons, Daryl B.; Şentürk, Fuat (1992). Sediment Transport Technology: Water and Sediment Dynamics. Water Resources Publication. ISBN 978-0-918334-66-4.
- ^ Buie, Earl E. (1971-11-09). "Memories of Gilman Springs". They Tell Me (column). The San Bernardino County Sun. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
- ^ Halliday, William R. (1962). Caves of California: A Special Report of the Western Speleological Survey in Cooperation with the National Speleological Society. National Speleological Society. pp. 90–92.
- ^ "History of Riverside County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth ..." HathiTrust. pp. 233–234. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081781274. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
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