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This is a route-map template for the Sacramento River, a waterway in the United States.. For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Cottonwood Creek is a major stream and tributary of the Sacramento River in Northern California.About 68 miles (109 km) long measured to its uppermost tributaries, the creek drains a large rural area bounded by the crest of the Coast Ranges, traversing the northwestern Sacramento Valley before emptying into the Sacramento River near the town of Cottonwood.
Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel (splits from the Sacramento River upstream at the Port of Sacramento) Prospect Slough Dickson Creek; Lindsey Slough; Shag Slough; Yolo Bypass (jump to tributaries) – manmade floodway, occasionally receiving floodwaters from the Sacramento River via Fremont Weir near Knights Landing. Alamo Creek; Ulatis Creek
Although the Sacramento River nominally begins near Mount Shasta, the true hydrological source of the Sacramento River system is the Pit River, which is by far the largest of the three rivers flowing into Shasta Lake. At the USGS Montgomery Creek gauge, the average flow of the Pit River was 4,760 cu ft/s (135 m 3 /s) for the period 1966–2013 ...
It joins the Sacramento River south of Hamilton City and west of Chico at Sacramento river mile 190 (kilometer 306). [18] The average unimpaired runoff of Stony Creek was 422,000 acre-feet (0.521 km 3) for the period 1921 to 2003, with a maximum of 1,435,000 acre-feet (1.770 km 3) in 1983 and a minimum of 17,000 acre-feet (0.021 km 3) in 1977. [19]
Pocket-Greenhaven (also known as The Pocket) is a suburban community within the city of Sacramento, California, 5 miles south of downtown Sacramento. It is bordered by Interstate 5 on the east and a semi-circular "pocket" bend in the Sacramento River on the south, west, and north. [ 1 ]
Clarksburg (formerly, Clarksburgh) [3] is a census-designated place in Yolo County, California. It is located on the Sacramento River, in the extreme southeastern corner of the county. It lies at an elevation of 10 feet (3 m) in ZIP code 95612 and area codes 916 and 279.
Tower Bridge (California) This is a list of the crossings of the Sacramento River from its mouth at Suisun Bay upstream to the Ribbon Bridge in Redding. There are many more bridges north of this point up to Lake Siskiyou, immediately east of the source of the river at the confluence of the South and Middle Forks of the Sacramento River.