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References
- 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Orestimba Creek
- ↑ Map of San Joaquin River basin tributaries www.centralvalleymonitoring.org/map accessed November 1, 2011
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine , accessed October 31, 2011
- ↑ Diseño del Rancho Orestimba
- ↑ Mildred Brooke Hoover, Douglas E. Kyle, Historic Spots in California, Stanford University Press, 2002, p.517