Pacheco Creek (Contra Costa County)
Pacheco Creek is a 3.4-mile-long (5.5 km)[1] waterway in central Contra Costa County, California, United States.[2] It empties into Suisun Bay. It is formed by the intersection of Walnut Creek, Grayson Creek and Pine Creek.
The creek has a run of chinook salmon and steelhead trout after periods of rain in the winter and fall.[3]
History
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Salvio Pacheco, a Californio ranchero and military officer, was granted the Rancho Monte del Diablo in 1834, and settled there in 1844. The creek is named for him.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 15, 2011
- ^ TopoQuest topographic map, USGS, retrieved July 5, 2008
- ^ Leidy, Robert. "Historical Distribution and Current Status of Steelhead/Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Streams of the San Francisco Estuary, California" (PDF). www.cemar.org.
- ^ Gudde, Erwin G. (1949). California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of California Geographical Names. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 275. ISBN 9780520266193.
External links
[edit]- "Pacheco Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
38°02′40″N 122°05′33″W / 38.044365°N 122.092465°W
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