Los Alamos Canyon Creek, a stream or arroyo, tributary to San Mateo Creek, in the Cleveland National Forest in Riverside County, California. Its source is at an altitude of 2300 feet, in a canyon on the south face of the ridge of Elsinore Mountains that descends to the southeast from Elsinore Peak.[2] The creek descends southward for a short distance then turns southwest for 4 miles where it turns west for 3 miles down Los Alamos Canyon to its confluence with San Mateo Creek at an elevation of 1312 feet.[3][4]
| Los Alamos Canyon Creek[1] Los Alamos Canyon | |
|---|---|
 Map of San Mateo Creek and Arroyo San Onofre drainage basins. San Mateo Creek basin is in dark green. | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Region | Riverside County |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | southeastern slope of Elsinore Mountains |
| • coordinates | 33°35′39″N 117°19′05″W / 33.86317°N 117.31806°W |
| • elevation | 2,300 ft (700 m) |
| Mouth | confluence with San Mateo Creek |
• coordinates | 33°33′04″N 117°23′38″W / 33.55111°N 117.39389°W |
• elevation | 1,312 ft (400 m) |
| Length | 7 mi (11 km) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | confluence with San Mateo Creek, Santa Ana Mountains |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | unnamed arroyo from Tenaja Mountain highland & Santa Rosa Plateau |
| • right | unnamed arroyo from Elsinore Mountains, below Elsinore Peak., Wildhorse Canyon Creek, unnamed arroyo from San Mateo Peak |
Los Alamos Canyon Creek has one named tributary Wildhorse Canyon Creek[5] but has two unnamed arroyos descending from the Elsinore Mountains.[6][7] and one that drains the western Santa Rosa Plateau and the east slope of the Tenaja Mountain highland and descends to the north to join the creek where it turns to the west.[8]
References
edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Los Alamos Canyon Creek
- ^ Los Alamos Canyon Creek, (source), USGS Map Name: Wildomar, CA Map Center: N33° 35' 23" W117° 18' 53", from topoquest.com accessed on 5/4/2013
- ^ Los Alamos Canyon Creek, (mouth), USGS Map Name: Sitton Peak, CA, Map Center: N33° 33' 4" W117° 23' 38", from topoquest.com accessed on 5/4/2013
- ^ Beatrice Dawson Wood, Gazetteer of Surface Waters of California, Pacific Coast Basins and Great Basin, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1913, p.121
- ^ Wildhorse Canyon Creek, USGS Map Name: Wildomar, CA, Map Center: N33° 35' 51" W117° 22' 23" from topoquest.com accessed on 5/4/2013
- ^ Unnamed arroyo from southwestern San Mateo Peak, USGS Map Name: Sitton Peak, CA, Map Center: N33° 33' 3" W117° 23' 36" from topoquest.com accessed on 5/4/2013
- ^ Unnamed arroyo from southern Elsinore Mountains west from Esinore Peak, USGS Map Name: Wildomar, CA, Map Center: N33° 33' 25" W117° 20' 24 from topoquest.com accessed on 5/4/2013
- ^ Unnamed arroyo draining east slope of the Squaw Mountain highland and western Santa Rosa Plateau, USGS Map Name: Wildomar, CA, Map Center: N33° 33' 10" W117° 20' 33" from topoquest.com accessed on 5/4/2013