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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.
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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.
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- 1 2 "Gazos Creek". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey. 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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