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Deer Creek and its tributaries drain 229 square miles (590 km 2). [7] The creek flows roughly southwest for most of its 60-mile (97 km) length. [3] Its headwaters are in Lassen National Forest at an elevation of 7,320 feet (2,230 m) on Butt Mountain in the southern Cascade Range, several miles (9 km) west of Lake Almanor. [3]
The Deer Creek Dam and Reservoir hydroelectric facilities are on the Provo River in western Wasatch County, Utah, United States, [1] [2] about 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Provo. The dam is a zoned earthfill structure 235 feet (72 m) high with a crest length of 1,304 ft (397 m).
Established as a state park in 1971, the 3,260-acre (13.2 km 2) [1] Deer Creek State Park features the large Deer Creek Reservoir, which is popular for fishing and sun tanning, along with other surface water sports such as boating, sailing, swimming, and windsurfing. The park is at an elevation of 5,400 feet (1,600 m). [2]
Deer Creek is a stream that flows through the Sierra Nevada Range in Northern California, USA. [1] The 34 miles (55 km) stream begins above Scotts Flat Lake in the alpine region in the Tahoe National Forest, continues through the middle of downtown Nevada City, is a tributary to Lake Wildwood and ends as it enters the Yuba River below Englebright Lake.
The Cosumnes continues southwest, passing Sheldon and Wilton, receives Deer Creek from the right, then is crossed by Highway 99 near Elk Grove. Below Highway 99 it enters the nearly 50,000-acre (20,000 ha) Cosumnes River Preserve , which include some of the largest remaining wetlands and riparian areas in the Central Valley. [ 9 ]
The river widens into upper Englebright Lake near French Bar, and is joined by the South Yuba within the reservoir. It passes through the Englebright Dam near Lake Wildwood and is then joined by Deer Creek (which flows out of Lake Wildwood) on the left.
Cottonwood Creek continues on to join with the Cimarron River near Guthrie, Oklahoma. Like Cottonwood Creek, portions of Deer Creek are prone to flooding. [2] [3] [4] The most significant tributary of Deer Creek is Bluff Creek (and upstream to Lake Hefner, a major water reservoir and recreational lake in Oklahoma City. [5]
River system Allegheny River Deer Creek is a tributary of the Allegheny River located in both Allegheny and Butler counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania .