La Honda Creek

La Honda Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary of San Gregorio Creek.[1] It flows about 7 miles (11 km), from its source (37°23′32″N 122°17′30″W) near Bear Gulch Road and Skyline Boulevard (CA 35), to its confluence with Alpine Creek to form San Gregorio Creek in La Honda.

Portion of Rancho Cañada de Raymundo map showing La Honda Creek headwaters in 1856

La Honda Creek
La Honda Creek flows through Play Bowl in La Honda, California.
Location
CountryUnited States
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationnear Allen Lookout, San Mateo County, California
  coordinates37°23′32″N 122°17′30″W
  elevation1,940 feet (590 m)
Mouth 
  location
San Gregorio Creek
  elevation
320 feet (98 m)
Lengthabout 7 miles (11 km)
The creek in November 2015, at the end of California's dry season.
The creek in January 2016, during the wet season.

The creek was listed as Arroyo Ondo on several diseños on the Mexican land grants and as Arroyo Hondo on the 1856 Rancho Cañada de Raymundo map. Hondo is Spanish for 'deep'.[2]

California State Route 84 (CA 84) follows the valley of the creek from Sky Londa to San Gregorio. A large part of the creek's upper watershed is in La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve.

References

  1. "La Honda Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. January 19, 1981. Retrieved November 9, 2009.
  2. Gudde, Erwin G. (1998). California place names : the origin and etymology of current geographical names (4th ed., rev. and enl. ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 169. ISBN 0520213165.

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