Lights Creek

Lights Creek
	Location of Lights Creek in California
Location
Country	United States
State	California
Physical characteristics
Source	Diamond Mountains
- coordinates	40°18′40″N120°44′15″W / 40.31111°N 120.73750°W [1]
- elevation	6,478 ft (1,974 m)
River mouth	Indian Creek
- location	Near Taylorsville
- coordinates	40°05′58″N120°51′02″W / 40.09944°N 120.85056°W Coordinates: 40°05′58″N120°51′02″W / 40.09944°N 120.85056°W [1]
- elevation	3,514 ft (1,071 m)
Length	19 mi (31 km) [1]
Discharge
- location	Near the mouth, at Taylorsville [2]
- minimum	1.43 cu ft/s (0.040 m3/s)
- average	42.7 cu ft/s (1.21 m3/s) [2]
- maximum	2,440 cu ft/s (69 m3/s)
Basin features
Basin size	57.6 sq mi (149 km2) [2]

Last updated April 17, 2019

Lights Creek is a 19-mile (31 km) long^[1] stream in Plumas County, California and is a tributary of Indian Creek, part of the Feather River watershed.

Plumas County, California County in California, United States

Plumas County is a county in the Sierra Nevada of California, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 20,007. The county seat is Quincy, and the only incorporated city is Portola. The largest community in the county is East Quincy. The county was named for the Spanish Río de las Plumas, which flows through the county.

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.6 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous urban regions, with 18.7 million and 9.7 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second most populous, after New York City. California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The City and County of San Francisco is both the country's second-most densely populated major city after New York City and the fifth-most densely populated county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs.

Indian Creek is a major stream in the northern Sierra Nevada of Plumas County, California and is part of the Feather River system. The creek is 47 miles (76 km) long, flowing through a series of small towns and farming valleys in a rural, mountainous area.

The creek begins in the Diamond Mountains, near the border of Plumas and Lassen County. It flows in a south-southwesterly direction through a high mountain valley in the Plumas National Forest. About two-thirds of the way down from its source, it enters the North Arm of Indian Valley, which is used for farming and ranching. It joins Indian Creek on the right bank about a mile (1.6 km) north of Taylorsville.^[3]

The Diamond Mountains are a mountain range along the border of Eureka and White Pine Counties, in northern Nevada, Western United States.

Lassen County is a county in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 34,895. The county seat and only incorporated city is Susanville.

Plumas National Forest is a 1,146,000-acre (4,638 km²) United States National Forest located at the northern terminus of the Sierra Nevada, in northern California. The Forest was named after its primary watershed, the Rio de las Plumas, which was later anglicized to "Feather River".

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References

1 2 3 4 "Lights Creek". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey. 1981-01-19. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
1 2 3 "USGS Gage #11401300 Lights Creek near Taylorsville, CA". National Water Information System. U.S. Geological Survey. 1957–1962. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
↑ USGS Topo Maps for United States (Map). Cartography by United States Geological Survey. ACME Mapper. Retrieved 2017-01-15.

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[GNIS-1] 1 2 3 4 "Lights Creek". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey. 1981-01-19. Retrieved 2017-01-15.

[nwis-2] 1 2 3 "USGS Gage #11401300 Lights Creek near Taylorsville, CA". National Water Information System. U.S. Geological Survey. 1957–1962. Retrieved 2017-01-15.

[3] USGS Topo Maps for United States (Map). Cartography by United States Geological Survey. ACME Mapper. Retrieved 2017-01-15.

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