Jackson Creek (Dry Creek tributary)

Jackson Creek is a 26.4-mile-long (42.5 km)[2] stream in the Sierra Nevada foothills and Amador County, California.

Jackson Creek
Location
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CountyAmador
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • coordinates38°24′35″N 120°39′25″W[1]
MouthDry Creek
 • location
about 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of Ione
 • coordinates
38°17′57″N 121°0′47″W[1]
 • elevation
184 ft (56 m)[1]

Geography

It is a tributary of Dry Creek, which is a tributary of the Mokelumne River. It is located southwest of Ione. The creek was linked to placer 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. The dam was constructed in 1965.[3]

Ecology

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, Gray Pine Pinus sabiniana, Ponderosa Pine, Pinus ponderosa, Oregon Ash, Fraxinus latifolia and California Buckeye, Aesculus californica.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Jackson Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  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 11, 2011
  3. "Dams Within the Jurisdiction of the State of California" (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


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