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Smith Creek is the name of two distinct watercourses within Santa Clara County, California. The larger of the two is located in the Diablo Range east of San Jose. The creek begins near Bollinger Ridge, about 7.7 km SxSW of Mount Hamilton. It flows westerly through Horse Valley, then turns northwest, crossing Mount Hamilton Road about 12.7 km west of Mount Hamilton (the Smith Creek Ranger Station is located at this crossing).〔U.S. Geological Survey. Lick Observatory Quadrangle (). 1:24,000. 7.5 Minute Series. Washington, D.C.〕 The creek continues northwest along the eastern boundary of Joseph D. Grant County Park〔''Biology Study for Joseph Grant County Park, Santa Clara County, California'', Earth Metrics inc, prepared for the County of Santa Clara, Report #7978, October 4, 1989〕 and joins Isabel Creek about 15.3 km WNW of Mount Hamilton at , forming Arroyo Hondo and eventually draining into Calaveras Reservoir. Both Smith Creek and Arroyo Hondo were recorded in 1905 by John Otterbein Snyder as holding anadromous Steelhead trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') streams. Some of the early recorded history of the Smith Creek watershed is associated with the pioneer family of the Winsors.〔(Winsor family of Milpitas, Santa Clara County )〕 The smaller of the two Smith Creeks is the headwaters tributary of San Tomas Aquinas Creek,〔(Leidy, Becker and Harvey, ''Historical Distribution of Rainbow Trout in streams of the San Francisco Bay Area'' )〕 but is largely dry except during the winter months. It begins in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains within the city of Monte Sereno, then flows northerly through portions of Los Gatos and Campbell until its confluence with San Tomas Aquino Creek.〔U.S. Geological Survey. Los Gatos Quadrangle (). 1:24,000. 7.5 Minute Series. Washington, D.C.〕〔U.S. Geological Survey. San Jose West Quadrangle (). 1:24,000. 7.5 Minute Series. Washington, D.C.〕 River otter (''Lontra canadensis'') are among the rare species observed at the University of California, Berkeley Blue Oak Ranch Reserve (in June 1999), on the Smith Creek tributary of Arroyo Hondo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=University of California )〕 ==See also== *List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area *Rainbow trout 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Smith Creek (Santa Clara County, California)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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