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La Honda Creek

Field	Value
name	La Honda Creek
name_other	Arroyo Hondo
image	La Honda Creek in June.png
image_size	280
image_caption	La Honda Creek flows through Play Bowl in La Honda, California
pushpin_map	USA California
pushpin_map_size	280
pushpin_map_caption	Location of the mouth of La Honda Creek at its confluence with Alpine Creek
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	United States
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	California
subdivision_type3	Region
subdivision_name3	San Mateo County
source1	Western slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains
source1_location	near Allen Lookout, San Mateo County, California
source_confluence_location	La Honda, California, San Mateo County, United States of America
source_confluence_coordinates
source_confluence_elevation	320 ft
mouth	Pacific Ocean
mouth_location	San Gregorio, California
mouth_coordinates
mouth_elevation	0 ft
tributaries_left	Alpine Creek
tributaries_right	La Honda Creek, Harrington Creek, Bogess Creek, El Corte de Madera Creek, Clear Creek, Coyote Creek

La Honda Creek is a 7 mi long stream on the Pacific slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains and is a tributary of San Gregorio Creek. From its source () near Bear Gulch Road and Skyline Boulevard (CA 35) in San Mateo County, California, La Honda Creek's water flow south to its confluence with Alpine Creek to form San Gregorio Creek in La Honda, and thence to the Pacific Ocean.

History

The Spanish historic name for La Honda Creek was Arroyo Hondo, meaning "deep stream". The creek was listed as Arroyo Ondo on several diseños on the Mexican land grants and as Arroyo Hondo on the 1856 Rancho Cañada de Raymundo map.

Watershed and Course

Portion of Rancho Cañada de Raymundo map showing La Honda Creek headwaters in 1856

The La Honda Creek watershed drains 12.3 sqmi. A large part of the creek's upper watershed is in La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve.

California State Route 84 (CA 84) follows the valley of the creek from Sky Londa to San Gregorio.

Four named tributaries, Woodhams, Langley, Woodruff and Weeks Creeks, flow into La Honda Creek.

Ecology

The La Honda Creek watershed has been documented as historically supporting a salmonid population, including steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and potentially coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), however sediment eroding into the creek coupled with natural logjams present barriers to fish passage. A 1985 California Department of Fish and Wildlife survey reported steelhead up to 2 mi upstream of Weeks Creek, the highest named tributary, and reported that La Honda Creek provides good spawning and rearing habitat for steelhead downstream of Woodruff Creek, and resident rainbow trout (the landlocked form of steelhead trout) upstream of Woodruff Creek.

The creek in November 2015, at the end of California's [[dry season]].

The creek in January 2016, during the [[wet season]].

References

Hoover, Mildred B.. (1966). "Historic Spots in California, 3rd edition". Stanford University Press.
{{gnis. 232403. San Gregorio Creek
U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map], accessed March 10, 2011
(1998). "California place names: the origin and etymology of current geographical names". University of California Press.
William Shay Overton. (May 1, 2004). "Engineering Geology, Fluvial Geomorphology, and Geology of La Honda Creek in San Mateo County, California". California State University, Fresno.
(2007). "Stream Inventory Report for La Honda Creek: Prepared for the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. SFEI Contribution No. 529.". San Francisco Estuary Institute.

Wikipedia Source

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