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Martini Creek is a coastal stream whose watershed lies entirely within San Mateo County, California, United States on the western exposures of the Montara mountain block, discharging to the Pacific Ocean. It flows about 2 miles (3 km) from its source on Montara Mountain to its mouth in Montara State Beach. This stream has a drainage basin composed of open space and agricultural lands. Some of the basin has moderate to steep slopes and much of the basin habitat is northern coastal scrub, and in places almost of a pygmy forest nature.
Westpoint Slough is the largest of several sloughs feeding into Redwood Creek in San Mateo County, California, United States. This slough is surrounded by extensive undisturbed marshlands including Greco Island, which forms its northern boundary. The channel of Westpoint Slough contains considerable mudflat areas; moreover, both the marshes and mudflats offer considerable habitat area for local and migratory wildlife, especially birds.
Richmond Inner Harbor is a deepwater body of water in Richmond, California.
Copper Mine Gulch is a valley in Marin County, California, United States, which is associated with a small stream.
Pacheco Creek is a 3.4-mile-long (5.5 km) waterway in central Contra Costa County, California, United States. It empties into Suisun Bay. It is formed by the intersection of Walnut Creek, Grayson Creek and Pine Creek.
Stege, founded in 1876, was an unincorporated community in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The town has now been annexed and absorbed by the cities of Richmond and El Cerrito, California. It was located on the Southern Pacific Railroad 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-southeast of downtown Richmond, at an elevation of 23 feet. The site is now located in the area known as the Richmond Annex, at coordinates: 37°55′00″N122°19′38″W.
Olema Valley is a gorge formed by the San Andreas Fault in rural west Marin County, Northern California. The valley runs from the southern end of Tomales Bay through Point Reyes Station, the town of Olema, and Dogtown, to the Bolinas Lagoon, which lies between Bolinas and Stinson Beach. It is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Alpine Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California. It flows about 5 miles (8 km), from its source near West Alpine Road about a mile southwest of Skyline Boulevard (CA 35), to its confluence with La Honda Creek to form San Gregorio Creek in La Honda at California State Route 84.
Rodgers Gulch is a valley in San Mateo County, California. It contains a small stream which is a tributary of San Gregorio Creek. The stream flows about 1.5 miles (2 km) from its source on Mindego Hill to its confluence with Alpine Creek, just east (upstream) of the boundary of the Heritage Grove Redwood Preserve.
Woodhams Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary of San Gregorio Creek. It flows about 2 miles (3 km) from its source on Langley Hill to its confluence with La Honda Creek, in the town of La Honda.
Langley Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and a tributary to La Honda Creek, which in turn is a tributary to San Gregorio Creek. It flows about 2 miles (3 km) from its source on Langley Hill to its confluence with La Honda Creek, a short distance upstream from the town of La Honda.
Spanish Ranch Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California. It flows about 1 mile (2 km) west from its source to its confluence with Weeks Creek, which in turn joins La Honda Creek in the La Honda Creek Regional Open Space, about 2 miles north of the town of La Honda.
Pine Tree Gulch is a valley in San Mateo County, California near Bellvale. It contains a small stream which is a tributary of San Gregorio Creek. The stream flows about 0.5 miles (1 km) from its source to its confluence with El Corte de Madera Creek.
Shaw Gulch is a valley in San Mateo County, California. It contains a stream which flows about 1.5 miles (2 km) from its source. The stream's waters drain into Bradley Creek about 1.5 miles (2 km) north of the town of Pescadero.
Bear Creek is a tributary of Peters Creek in San Mateo County, California in the United States. 37.27661°N 122.198855°W
Iverson Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary of Pescadero Creek. It flows about 0.6 miles (1 km) from its source on Butano Ridge in Pescadero Creek County Park to its mouth in Portola Redwoods State Park.
Pulgas Ridge Open Space Preserve is a public recreation area in the Santa Cruz Mountains, San Mateo County in northern California. It is managed by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD).
Rancho Punta del Año Nuevo was a 17,753-acre (71.84 km2) Mexican land grant in present day San Mateo County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Simeon Castro. At the time, the grant was in Santa Cruz County; an 1868 boundary adjustment gave the land to San Mateo County. The grant extended along the Pacific coast from Rancho Butano and Arroyo de los Frijoles on the north, past Pigeon Point, Franklin Point to Point Año Nuevo on the south.
El Sereno Open Space Preserve is a park unit of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District located on the peak and slopes of 2580 ft. El Sereno mountain, a peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The preserve is located in Santa Clara County, California.
Wood Island is a former island in Marin County, California, formerly in the Corte Madera Creek but now surrounded by land. Its coordinates are 37°56′37″N122°30′42″W, and the United States Geological Survey measured its elevation as 13 ft (4.0 m) in 1981. It appears in a 1954 USGS map of the region. In the 1960s, its principal owner was Spero Spiliotis. In 1969, the city of Larkspur passed a resolution of intent to annex the island, and in the 1970s, a ferry terminal had been proposed.
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- 1 2 "Gazos Creek". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. 19 January 1981. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- ↑ Bright, William (1998). 1500 California Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning. University of California Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-520-21271-8.
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