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Pacheco Creek (Contra Costa County)

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Coordinates:38°02′40″N122°05′33″W / 38.044365°N 122.092465°W /38.044365; -122.092465

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Waterway in Contra Costa County, California, United States

This article is about Pacheco Creek in Contra Costa County. For Pacheco Creek in San Benito County, seePacheco Creek (San Benito County).

Aerial view of Pacheco Creek (center right), with mouth atSuisun Bay and source just aboveBuchanan Field Airport at the confluence ofWalnut Creek (lower center) andGrayson Creek

Pacheco Creek is a 3.4-mile-long (5.5 km)^[1] waterway in centralContra Costa County, California, United States.^[2] It empties intoSuisun Bay. It is formed by the intersection ofWalnut Creek,Grayson Creek and Pine Creek.

The creek has a run ofchinook salmon andsteelhead trout after periods of rain in the winter and fall.^[3]

History

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Pacheco Creak is named forSalvio Pacheco, a Californio ranchero, who ownedRancho Monte del Diablo.

Salvio Pacheco, a Californio ranchero and military officer, was granted theRancho Monte del Diablo in 1834, and settled there in 1844. The creek is named for him.^[4]

References

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^U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data.The National Map, accessed March 15, 2011
^TopoQuest topographic map, USGS, retrieved July 5, 2008
^Leidy, Robert."Historical Distribution and Current Status of Steelhead/Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Streams of the San Francisco Estuary, California"(PDF).www.cemar.org.
^Gudde, Erwin G. (1949).California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of California Geographical Names. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 275.ISBN 9780520266193.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

External links

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"Pacheco Creek".Geographic Names Information System.United States Geological Survey,United States Department of the Interior.

38°02′40″N122°05′33″W / 38.044365°N 122.092465°W /38.044365; -122.092465

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