Dry Creek (Sonoma County, California)

Dry Creek
Dry Creek
	Lambert Bridge spanning Dry Creek
Location
Country	United States
State	California
Region	Sonoma and Mendocino counties
Physical characteristics
Source	Snow Mountain
• location	6 mi (10 km) west of Hopland
• coordinates	38°55′55″N 123°13′2″W / 38.93194°N 123.21722°W
• elevation	760 ft (230 m)
Mouth	Russian River
• location	2 mi (3 km) south of Healdsburg, California
• coordinates	38°35′10″N 122°51′26″W / 38.58611°N 122.85722°W
• elevation	82 ft (25 m)

Dry Creek is a 43.0-mile-long (69.2 km)^[2] stream in the California counties of Sonoma and Mendocino. It is a tributary of the Russian River, with headwaters in Mendocino County.

The Dry Creek Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area.

Geography

Lake Sonoma and the Warm Springs Dam

The creek flows roughly southeast until reaches Lake Sonoma, which is formed by the Warm Springs Dam. Several other creeks that used to merge with the creek now flow into the lake. Downstream of the dam, the creek continues flowing roughly southeast until its confluence with the Russian River.

Bridges

Dry Creek is spanned by numerous bridges, including:^[3]

at Yoakim Bridge Road, a concrete continuous tee beam built in 1956
at Westside Road, a steel truss built in 1934
at Lambert Bridge Road, a steel truss built in 1915
at State Route 128, a prestressed concrete Tee Beam built in 2005

References

^ ^a ^b ^c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dry Creek
^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 9, 2011
^ "National Bridge Inventory Database". Archived from the original on 2013-10-31.

External links

[gnis-1] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dry Creek

[NHD-2] U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 9, 2011

[NBI-3] "National Bridge Inventory Database". Archived from the original on 2013-10-31.

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v t e Russian River Watershed
Tributaries	Atascadero Creek Austin Creek Big Sulphur Creek Blucher Creek Brush Creek Copeland Creek Crane Creek Dry Creek Dutch Bill Creek Five Creek Foss Creek Green Valley Creek Hinebaugh Creek Laguna de Santa Rosa Maacama Creek Mark West Creek Matanzas Creek Piner Creek Santa Rosa Creek Spring Creek Washoe Creek Windsor Creek
Communities	Asti Calpella Camp Meeker Cazadero Cloverdale Cotati Duncans Mills Forestville Fulton Geyserville Graton Guerneville Guernewood Park Healdsburg Hopland Jenner Korbel Mark West Mark West Springs Monte Rio Occidental Potter Valley Redwood Valley Rio Nido Rohnert Park Santa Rosa Sebastopol Talmage Ukiah Windsor
Parks and natural features	Alexander Valley Annadel State Park Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve Austin Creek State Recreation Area Doyle Community Park Dry Creek Valley Fountaingrove Lake Frog Woman Rock Lake Ilsanjo Lake Mendocino Lake Ralphine Lake Sonoma Spring Lake Regional Park Taylor Mountain
Other	Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport Highway 101 Joe Rodota Trail Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	United States Israel

Geography

Lake Sonoma and the Warm Springs Dam

Bridges

See also

References

External links