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Jordan Creek (Owyhee River tributary)

Field	Value
name	Jordan Creek
name_etymology	For Michael M. Jordan, whose party discovered gold along the creek in 1863
image	File:Owyhee_river_basin_map.png
image_caption	Map of the Owyhee River drainage basin; Jordan Creek joins the river near Rome, Oregon
image_size	300
map_size	300
pushpin_map	USA Oregon#USA
pushpin_map_size	300
pushpin_map_caption	Location of the mouth of Jordan Creek in Oregon
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	United States
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	Idaho, Oregon
subdivision_type4	County
length	99 mi
discharge1_location	near Oregon–Idaho border
discharge1_min	1.2 cuft/s
discharge1_avg	183 cuft/s
discharge1_max	7530 cuft/s
source1	Owyhee Mountains
source1_location	near Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho
source1_coordinates
source1_elevation	7551 ft
mouth	Owyhee River
mouth_location	near Rome, Malheur County, Oregon
mouth_coordinates
mouth_elevation	3363 ft
basin_size	1305 sqmi

Jordan Creek is a 99 mi tributary of the Owyhee River in the northwestern United States. It generally flows west from near Silver City, Idaho, in the Owyhee Mountains to near Rome in the Oregon High Desert. Major tributaries are Big Boulder, Soda, Louse, Spring, Rock, Meadow, Combination, and Louisa creeks in Idaho and Cow Creek in Oregon. The creek is named for Michael M. Jordan, who led a party that discovered gold along the creek in 1863.

Watershed

Jordan Creek's watershed of 1305 mi2 is almost evenly divided between the two states, 46 percent in Idaho and 54 percent in Oregon. Although the upper parts of the basin in the Silver City Mountain Range supported mining camps and towns in the late 19th century through the early 20th century, they were generally abandoned when the gold and silver played out. Much of the population in the 21st century lives on small homesteads, ranches, and farms scattered throughout the watershed. Jordan Valley, Oregon, is the basin's only population center that has permanent, year-round residents, while Silver City has mostly part-time or weekend residents.

Land use in the watershed is divided among irrigated agriculture, range land, forests, mining, and riparian zones. The primary uses are cow-calf grazing in the uplands and hay production in the irrigated lowlands. Average precipitation varies from about 21 in a year in the mountains of Idaho to about 11 in in the plateaus of eastern Oregon. To control water flow for irrigation, most of the watershed's hydrology has been modified to some degree by large reservoirs in Oregon and in-stream diversions in Idaho.

Discharge

Based on 28 years of record-keeping from 1946 to 1971 and from 2003 to 2004, the average discharge of Jordan Creek, measured about 4 mi upstream of the Oregon–Idaho border, is 183 cuft/s. The lowest recorded discharge was 1.2 cuft/s in September 1962, and the highest was 7530 cuft/s on December 31, 1965. This flow came from slightly less than 46 percent of the total watershed.

References

Works cited

Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). (2009). Jordan Creek Subbasin Assessment and Total Maximum Daily Load (PDF). Retrieved September 12, 2010.
McArthur, Lewis A., and McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names, 7th ed. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press. .
National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) (2010). [ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/ID/technical/watersheds/jordan_revised.pdf Jordan – 17050108, 8 Digit Hydrologic Unit Profile] (PDF). Retrieved September 10, 2010.

References

"National Hydrography Dataset". United States Geological Survey.
(November 28, 1980). "Jordan Creek". Geographic Names Information System.
Source elevation derived from [[Google Earth]] search using Geographic Names Information System source coordinates.
NRCS, p. 2
"Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer". DeLorme Mapping.
"Idaho Atlas & Gazetteer". DeLorme Mapping.
NRCS, p. 10
McArthur, pp. 518–19
Rees, John E.. (1918). "Idaho Chronology, Nomenclature, Bibliography". W.B. Conkey Company.
Idaho DEQ, pp. 31–32
Idaho DEQ, p. xviii
Idaho DEQ, p. 1

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