Chico Creek

Chico Creek is a 53.9-mile-long (86.7 km)[2] tributary of the Arkansas River that flows from a source in El Paso County, Colorado. It joins the Arkansas in Pueblo County just west of the town of Avondale.

This article is about the creek in Colorado. For the creek in Northern California, see Big Chico Creek.
Chico Creek[1]
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • coordinates38°45′50″N 104°33′14″W
Mouth 
 • location
Confluence with Arkansas
 • coordinates
38°14′33″N 104°21′57″W
 • elevation
4,505 ft (1,373 m)
Basin size747 sq mi (1,930 km2)
Basin features
ProgressionArkansas—Mississippi

See also

References
  1. "Chico Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 31, 2011



This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.