Ortigalita Creek

Coordinates: 36°57′22″N 120°52′40″W / 36.95611°N 120.87778°W

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Ortigalita Creek

Etymology	Spanish
Location
Country	United States
State	California
Region	Merced County
Physical characteristics

Source	source
• location	near a peak on the Ortigalita Ridge of the Diablo Range., Merced County
• coordinates	36°48′34″N 120°59′04″W / 36.80944°N 120.98444°W / 36.80944; -120.98444^[1]
• elevation	3,520 ft (1,070 m)

Mouth	mouth
• location	terminates just as it emerges from the foothills before it reaches the California Aqueduct., Merced County
• coordinates	36°57′22″N 120°52′40″W / 36.95611°N 120.87778°W / 36.95611; -120.87778^[1]
• elevation	276 ft (84 m)^[1]

Ortigalita Creek, formerly Arroyo de Las Ortigalito (Little Nettle Creek) is a tributary stream of the San Joaquin River, in Merced County, California. The source of Ortigalita Creek is at 3,520 ft (1,070 m) located near a peak on the Ortigalita Ridge of the Diablo Range. Its mouth is 7.2 mi (11.6 km) south southwest of Los Banos, California just as it emerges from the foothills before it reaches the California Aqueduct.^[1] Originally in years of heavy winter rainfall it may have reached the vicinity of the Mud Slough of the San Joaquin River.

History

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Arroyo de Las Ortigalito was a watering place on El Camino Viejo in the San Joaquin Valley between Arroyo de los Baños and Arroyita de Panoche.^[2] Arroyo de Las Ortigalito also was the southern boundary of Rancho Panoche de San Juan y Los Carrisolitos.

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ortigalita Creek
^ Mildred B. Hoover, et al. Historic Spots in California. 3rd edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1966. p202.

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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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