Dry Creek (Sonoma County, California)

Dry Creek
stream
Country	United States
State	California
Region	Sonoma and Mendocino counties


Source	Snow Mountain
- location	6 mi (10 km) west of Hopland
- elevation	760 ft (232 m)
- coordinates	38°55′55″N 123°13′2″W / 38.93194°N 123.21722°W / 38.93194; -123.21722 ^[1]
Mouth	Russian River
- location	2 mi (3 km) south of Healdsburg, California
- elevation	82 ft (25 m) ^[1]
- coordinates	38°35′10″N 122°51′26″W / 38.58611°N 122.85722°W / 38.58611; -122.85722Coordinates: 38°35′10″N 122°51′26″W / 38.58611°N 122.85722°W / 38.58611; -122.85722 ^[1]

Dry Creek is a 43.0-mile-long (69.2 km)^[2] stream in the California counties of Sonoma and Mendocino. It is a tributary of the Russian River, with headwaters in Mendocino County.

The Dry Creek Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area.

Geography

Lake Sonoma and the Warm Springs Dam

Main article: Lake Sonoma

The creek flows roughly southeast until reaches Lake Sonoma, which is formed by the Warm Springs Dam. Several other creeks that used to merge with the creek now flow into the lake. Downstream of the dam, the creek continues flowing roughly southeast until its confluence with the Russian River.

Bridges

Dry Creek is spanned by numerous bridges, including:^[3]

at Yoakim Bridge Road, a concrete continuous tee beam built in 1956
at Westside Road, a steel truss built in 1934
at Lambert Bridge Road, a steel truss built in 1915
at State Route 128, a prestressed concrete Tee Beam built in 2005

References

1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dry Creek
↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 9, 2011
↑ "National Bridge Inventory Database".

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Russian River Watershed

Tributaries	Atascadero Creek Austin Creek Big Sulphur Creek Blucher Creek Brush Creek Copeland Creek Crane Creek Dry Creek Dutch Bill Creek Five Creek Foss Creek Green Valley Creek Hinebaugh Creek Laguna de Santa Rosa Maacama Creek Mark West Creek Matanzas Creek Piner Creek Santa Rosa Creek Spring Creek Washoe Creek Windsor Creek

Communities	Asti Calpella Camp Meeker Cazadero Cloverdale Cotati Duncans Mills Forestville Fulton Geyserville Graton Guerneville Guernewood Park Healdsburg Hopland Jenner Korbel Mark West Mark West Springs Monte Rio Occidental Potter Valley Redwood Valley Rio Nido Rohnert Park Santa Rosa Sebastopol Talmage Ukiah Windsor

Landmarks	Annadel State Park Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve Austin Creek State Recreation Area Frog Woman Rock Highway 101 Lake Mendocino Lake Sonoma Northwestern Pacific Railroad

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