Jackson Creek (Dry Creek)

Jackson Creek
stream
Country United States
State California
County Amador
Source
 - coordinates  [1]
Mouth Dry Creek
 - location about 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of Ione
 - elevation 184 ft (56 m) [1]
 - coordinates  [1]

Jackson Creek is a 26.4-mile-long (42.5 km)[2] stream in Amador County, California, which feeds into Dry Creek southwest of Ione. It was linked to gold mining during the California Gold Rush era.

Jackson Creek is dammed to create Lake Amador using a 193-foot (59 m) high earth and rock construction; this dam was constructed in the year 1965.[3]

Tree cover in much of the watershed approaches 80 percent, with dominant tree species including Interior Live Oak, Quercus wislizinii, Black Oak, Quercus kellogii, Blue Oak, Quercus douglasiiigger, Pinus sabiniana, Ponderosa Pine, Pinus ponderosa, Oregon Ash, Fraxinus latifolia and California Buckeye, Aesculus californica.[4]

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References

  1. ^ a b c "Jackson Creek". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:234078. 
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 11, 2011
  3. ^ "Dams Within the Jurisdiction of the State of California". http://www.water.ca.gov/damsafety/docs/Juris(H-M)1.pdf. Retrieved August 28, 2010. 
  4. ^ C. Michael Hogan, Gary Deghi et al., Scottsville Project Environmental Impact Report, Jackson California, Earth Metrics Inc., Report 7562, Sept., 1989