Orestimba_Creek

Orestimba Creek

Orestimba Creek

River in California, United States

Orestimba Creek, originally Arroyo de Orestimba (Orestimba, a Yokutsan word for "meeting place") is a tributary of the San Joaquin River draining eastern slopes of part of the Diablo Range within the San Joaquin Valley of California.

Quick Facts Etymology, Native name ...

The Creek has its source at the confluence of the north and south forks of Orestimba Creek and its mouth at the San Joaquin River, is about 7 1/2 miles north of Newman in Stanislaus County.[2][3]

History

Arroyo Orestimba was a watering place on El Camino Viejo in the San Joaquin Valley and was the primary water source for Rancho Orestimba y Las Garzas near its northern boundary.[4] The ranch house of Rancho Orestimba y las Garzas, was built above the sycamore grove on Arroyo de Orestimba.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Orestimba Creek
  2. [2]
    Map of San Joaquin River basin tributaries www.centralvalleymonitoring.org/map accessed November 1, 2011
  3. [3]
    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
  4. [4]
    Diseño del Rancho Orestimba
  5. [5]
    Mildred Brooke Hoover, Douglas E. Kyle, Historic Spots in California, Stanford University Press, 2002, p.517
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