Windsor Creek

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Coordinates: 38°29′48″N 122°50′58″W / 38.49667, -122.84944

Windsor Creek
stream
Country	United States
State	California
Region	Sonoma County

Tributaries
- left	Pool Creek
City	Windsor, California


Source
- location	5 mi (8 km) southeast of Healdsburg, California
- coordinates	38°35′26″N 122°47′38″W / 38.59056, -122.79389 ^[1]
Mouth	Mark West Creek
- location	3 mi (5 km) northeast of Forestville
- coordinates	38°29′48″N 122°50′58″W / 38.49667, -122.84944 ^[1]

Windsor Creek is a southward-flowing stream in Sonoma County, California, USA which rises near Healdsburg, California and feeds into Mark West Creek west of the Sonoma County Airport. Its waters reach the Pacific Ocean by way of the Russian River.

1 Course
2 Watershed
3 Bridges
4 Footnotes
5 External links
6 See also

[edit] Course

Windsor Creek rises about 5 mi (8 km) southeast of Healdsburg. It descends southward into the town of Windsor, paralleling Brooks Road to Hiram Lewis Park. It parallels Brooks Road South to U.S. Route 101, crossing under the freeway at milepost 29.5. It continues southwest through farmland to a confluence with Pool Creek east of Pratt Road. From there, it flows south to empty into Mark West Creek about 3 mi (5 km) northeast of Forestville.

[edit] Watershed

[edit] Bridges

Windsor Creek is crossed by at least five bridges:^[2]

at Old Redwood Highway, a 72-foot (22 m) prestressed concrete span built in 1995,
at Windsor Road north of Wilson Lane, a 67-foot (20 m) concrete slab built in 1967,
at Mark West Station Road, an 38-foot (12 m) concrete slab built in 1976,
at U.S. Route 101, a 35-foot (11 m) concrete culvert built in 1962, and
at Conde Lane east of Bell Avenue, a 26-foot (8 m) concrete culvert built in 1995.