Clear Creek (Sacramento River tributary)

Coordinates: 40°30′20″N 122°22′04″W / 40.50556°N 122.36778°W

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Clear Creek
Whiskeytown Lake on Clear Creek

Location
Country	United States
State	California
Region	Shasta Trinity
Physical characteristics

Source	Damnation Peak
• location	Trinity Mountains, Shasta-Trinity National Forest
• coordinates	40°57′31″N 122°31′45″W / 40.95861°N 122.52917°W / 40.95861; -122.52917^[3]
• elevation	5,080 ft (1,550 m)

Mouth	Sacramento River
• location	Girvan
• coordinates	40°30′20″N 122°22′04″W / 40.50556°N 122.36778°W / 40.50556; -122.36778^[3]
• elevation	415 ft (126 m)
Length	60.6 mi (97.5 km)^[1]
Basin size	249 sq mi (640 km²)^[4]

Discharge
• location	French Gulch, above Whiskeytown Lake^[2]
• average	211 cu ft/s (6.0 m³/s)^[2]
• minimum	2.07 cu ft/s (0.059 m³/s)
• maximum	14,600 cu ft/s (410 m³/s)

Basin features
Tributaries
• right	Crystal Creek, Brandy Creek

Clear Creek (Ínaam in Karuk) is a tributary of the upper Sacramento River in northern California.^[5]

Geography

The creek is 60.6 miles (97.5 km) long,^[1] flowing in southern Siskiyou County and northern Shasta County. Clear Creek is the first major Sacramento River tributary downstream of the Shasta Dam.^[6]

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.^[5]^[7]

California Historical Landmark

The site along Clear Creek where Pierson B. Reading discovered gold in 1848 was declared a California Historical Landmark No 78, on December 6, 1932, at 40°35′32″N 122°28′40″W / 40.5922°N 122.4777°W / 40.5922; -122.4777. ^[8] Reading's Bar in Clear Creek is also a California Historical Landmark, No. 32.^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2016-06-30 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 10, 2011
^ ^a ^b "USGS Surface Water data for USA: USGS Surface-Water Monthly Statistics".
^ ^a ^b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Clear Creek
^ "Clear Creek Watershed | Sacramento River Watershed Program". Archived from the original on 2013-10-14.
^ ^a ^b "Clear Creek Watershed – Sacramento River Watershed Program". sacriver.org.
^ "California whitewater Clear Creek Sacramento Tributary". www.riverfacts.com.
^ "Restoration brings salmon, people back to Clear Creek | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service". FWS.gov. November 12, 2020.
^ "Clear Creek". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
^ "CHL # 32 Reading's Bar Shasta". www.californiahistoricallandmarks.com.

v t e 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 North Fork East Branch West Branch Middle Fork South Fork Yuba River Bear River American River North Fork Middle Fork South Fork Cache Creek Putah Creek
San Joaquin River watershed	Mokelumne River Cosumnes River Calaveras River Stanislaus River Tuolumne River Clavey River Cherry Creek Merced River Mariposa Creek Chowchilla River Fresno River
Tulare Basin	Kings River Kaweah River Tule River White River Poso Creek Kern River

v t e 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 Stockton Ship Channel Tehama-Colusa Canal
Rivers	American River Clear Creek Chowchilla River Kern River Sacramento River San Joaquin River San Luis Creek Stanislaus River
Other facilities	C.W. Bill Jones Pumping Plant

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