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Gatos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Campbell,_California" title="Campbell, California">Campbell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara,_California" title="Santa Clara, California">Santa Clara</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #CEDEFF;color: #202122;">Physical characteristics</th></tr><tr style="display:none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Source</th><td class="infobox-data">El Sereno Summit in the <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Mountains" title="Santa Cruz Mountains">Santa Cruz Mountains</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="font-weight:normal"> • location</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Saratoga,_California" title="Saratoga, California">Saratoga, California</a></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="font-weight:normal"> • coordinates</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek&params=37_13_04_N_122_01_32_W_"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">37°13′04″N</span> <span class="longitude">122°01′32″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">37.21778°N 122.02556°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">37.21778; -122.02556</span></span></span></a></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-gnis_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gnis-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="font-weight:normal"> • elevation</span></th><td class="infobox-data">2,400 ft (730 m)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/River_mouth" title="River mouth">Mouth</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Guadalupe Slough in South <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay" title="San Francisco Bay">San Francisco Bay</a></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display:inline;font-weight:normal"> • location</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sunnyvale,_California" title="Sunnyvale, California">Sunnyvale, California</a></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display:inline;font-weight:normal"> • coordinates</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek&params=37_23_20_N_121_58_07_W_type:river"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">37°23′20″N</span> <span class="longitude">121°58′07″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">37.38889°N 121.96861°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">37.38889; -121.96861</span></span></span></a></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-gnis_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gnis-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display:inline;font-weight:normal"> • elevation</div></th><td class="infobox-data">13 ft (4.0 m)<sup id="cite_ref-gnis_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gnis-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #CEDEFF;color: #202122;">Basin features</th></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Tributaries</th><td class="infobox-data"> </td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="font-weight:normal"> • left</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wildcat_Creek_(San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek_tributary)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wildcat Creek (San Tomas Aquino Creek tributary) (page does not exist)">Wildcat Creek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saratoga_Creek" title="Saratoga Creek">Saratoga Creek</a></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="font-weight:normal"> • right</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Mistletoe Creek, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Smith_Creek_(San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek_tributary)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Smith Creek (San Tomas Aquino Creek tributary) (page does not exist)">Smith Creek</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>San Tomas Aquinas Creek</b>, known locally as <b>San Tomas Aquino Creek</b>, is a 16.5-mile-long (26.6 km) stream<sup id="cite_ref-gnis_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gnis-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that heads on El Sereno mountain in <a href="/wiki/El_Sereno_Open_Space_Preserve" title="El Sereno Open Space Preserve">El Sereno Open Space Preserve</a> in <a href="/wiki/Saratoga,_California" title="Saratoga, California">Saratoga, California</a> in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_County,_California" title="Santa Clara County, California">Santa Clara County, California</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. It flows north through the cities of <a href="/wiki/Saratoga,_California" title="Saratoga, California">Saratoga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monte_Sereno,_California" title="Monte Sereno, California">Monte Sereno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Los_Gatos,_California" title="Los Gatos, California">Los Gatos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Campbell,_California" title="Campbell, California">Campbell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara,_California" title="Santa Clara, California">Santa Clara</a> and <a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a> before its confluence with the Guadalupe Slough in south <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay" title="San Francisco Bay">San Francisco Bay</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chinook_salmon_found_by_Roger_Castillo_on_San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek_mid-October_1996.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Chinook_salmon_found_by_Roger_Castillo_on_San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek_mid-October_1996.png/280px-Chinook_salmon_found_by_Roger_Castillo_on_San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek_mid-October_1996.png" decoding="async" width="280" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Chinook_salmon_found_by_Roger_Castillo_on_San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek_mid-October_1996.png/420px-Chinook_salmon_found_by_Roger_Castillo_on_San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek_mid-October_1996.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Chinook_salmon_found_by_Roger_Castillo_on_San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek_mid-October_1996.png/560px-Chinook_salmon_found_by_Roger_Castillo_on_San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek_mid-October_1996.png 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="478" /></a><figcaption>Roger Castillo, a founder of the Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Group, with a huge <a href="/wiki/Chinook_salmon" title="Chinook salmon">Chinook salmon</a> (<i>Oncorhynchus tshawytscha</i>), now a taxidermy wall mount specimen, that he recovered from San Tomas Aquino Creek below Highway 237 in mid-October, 1996.</figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1850s the creek appeared on several land grant maps as <b>San Tomas Aquinas Creek</b> and <b>Arroyo de San Tomás Aquinas</b>, named after <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Saint Thomas Aquinas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Durham_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Durham-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historically, San Tomas Aquino Creek formed the eastern boundary of the 1841 <a href="/wiki/Rancho_Quito" title="Rancho Quito">Rancho Quito</a> and the western boundary of the 1840 <a href="/wiki/Rancho_Rinconada_de_Los_Gatos" title="Rancho Rinconada de Los Gatos">Rancho Rinconada de Los Gatos</a> land grants.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Watershed_and_course">Watershed and course</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Watershed and course"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The San Tomas Aquino Creek watershed drains about 45 square miles.<sup id="cite_ref-SCVURPPP_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SCVURPPP-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It begins in the foothills of the <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Mountains" title="Santa Cruz Mountains">Santa Cruz Mountains</a> within the city of <a href="/wiki/Saratoga,_California" title="Saratoga, California">Saratoga</a> and flows north through <a href="/wiki/Campbell,_California" title="Campbell, California">Campbell</a>. </p><p>The middle portion of the creek runs under or alongside <a href="/wiki/San_Tomas_Expressway" class="mw-redirect" title="San Tomas Expressway">San Tomas Expressway</a>. From Bucknall Road in Campbell, it runs along the west side of the expressway until Williams Road in West <a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a>. From there, it runs under the median of the expressway until shortly north of Cabrillo Avenue in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara,_California" title="Santa Clara, California">Santa Clara</a>. Some portions are partially exposed, but much is completely underground. North of Cabrillo Avenue, it flows north until it meets the Guadalupe Slough. </p><p>The Guadalupe Slough carries the flows of San Thomas Aquino, Calabazas, and Saratoga Creeks out into south San Francisco Bay, passing just to the east of the Sunnyvale Water Pollution Control Ponds. </p><p>The San Tomas Aquino/Saratoga Creek Trail for bicycles and pedestrians follows the creek from Monroe Street in Santa Clara to the San Francisco Bay.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tributaries">Tributaries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Tributaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The major tributaries of San Tomas Aquino Creek include (heading downstream) Mistletoe, Wildcat (and its Vasona sub-tributary), <a href="/w/index.php?title=Smith_Creek_(San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek_tributary)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Smith Creek (San Tomas Aquino Creek tributary) (page does not exist)">Smith</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saratoga_Creek" title="Saratoga Creek">Saratoga Creeks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smith Creek is a headwaters tributary of San Tomas Aquino Creek,<sup id="cite_ref-CEMAR_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CEMAR-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but is largely dry except during the winter months. It begins in the foothills of the <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Mountains" title="Santa Cruz Mountains">Santa Cruz Mountains</a> within the city of <a href="/wiki/Monte_Sereno,_California" title="Monte Sereno, California">Monte Sereno</a>, then flows northerly through portions of <a href="/wiki/Los_Gatos,_California" title="Los Gatos, California">Los Gatos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Campbell,_California" title="Campbell, California">Campbell</a> until its confluence with San Tomas Aquino Creek.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Saratoga_Creek" title="Saratoga Creek">Saratoga Creek</a> is the largest tributary and joins San Tomas Aquino Creek south of Highway 101, near Monroe Street. Due to its relatively large size, the Saratoga Creek subwatershed is often viewed as a distinct watershed even though it does not directly discharge to the Lower South San Francisco Bay. In fact, San Tomas Aquino Creek historically used to be a tributary of Saratoga Creek and thence to the <a href="/wiki/Guadalupe_River_(California)" title="Guadalupe River (California)">Guadalupe River</a>, but when the latter was redirected from Guadalupe Slough to Alviso Slough to facilitate navigation, San Tomas Aquino Creek was extended directly to Guadalupe Slough at Sunnyvale Baylands Park in <a href="/wiki/Sunnyvale,_California" title="Sunnyvale, California">Sunnyvale</a> and Saratoga Creek became tributary to San Tomas Aquino Creek.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-oldmap_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oldmap-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Vasona Creek is a short creek that runs through <a href="/wiki/West_Valley_College" title="West Valley College">West Valley College</a> and joins Wildcat Creek just before the latter reaches San Tomas Aquino Creek.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With $570,000 in grants from the <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_Valley_Water_District" title="Santa Clara Valley Water District">Santa Clara Valley Water District</a>, the one mile section of Vasona Creek running through the college campus has undergone restoration since 2011, repairing deep channel incision and restoring riparian vegetation.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Habitat_and_wildlife">Habitat and wildlife</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Habitat and wildlife"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1898 <a href="/wiki/John_Otterbein_Snyder" title="John Otterbein Snyder">John Otterbein Snyder</a> collected steelhead trout (then <i>Salmo irideus Gibbons</i>) specimens in <i>Campbell Creek</i> (now <a href="/wiki/Saratoga_Creek" title="Saratoga Creek">Saratoga Creek</a>, a tributary of San Tomas Aquino Creek).<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 1985 <a href="/wiki/California_Department_of_Fish_and_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="California Department of Fish and Game">California Department of Fish and Game</a> (CDFG) survey of Saratoga Creek noted "a major steelhead and king salmon spawning area" on San Tomas Aquino Creek located approximately 200 yards downstream of the Saratoga and San Tomas Aquino creeks confluence. Stream resident <a href="/wiki/Rainbow_trout" title="Rainbow trout">coastal rainbow trout</a> (<i>Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus</i>) persist in the <a href="/wiki/Saratoga_Creek" title="Saratoga Creek">Saratoga Creek</a> watershed but <a href="/wiki/Anadromous" class="mw-redirect" title="Anadromous">anadromous</a> steelhead cannot run up from the Bay because of a barrier at the confluence of San Tomas Aquino Creek and Saratoga Creek that prevents their passage upstream.<sup id="cite_ref-CEMAR_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CEMAR-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Recent genetic analysis has shown that the San Tomas Aquino watershed trout are of native origin and not hatchery stock.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Leidy (2007) identified the native fishes in San Tomas Aquino Creek as <a href="/wiki/Lavinia_(fish)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lavinia (fish)">Hitch</a> (<i>Lavinia exilicauda</i>), <a href="/wiki/California_roach" title="California roach">California roach</a> (<i>Lavinia symmetricus</i>), <a href="/wiki/Catostomidae" title="Catostomidae">Sacramento sucker</a> (<i>Catostomus occidentalis occidentalis</i>), <a href="/wiki/Three-spined_stickleback" title="Three-spined stickleback">Three-spined stickleback</a> (<i>Gasterosteus aculeatus</i>), <a href="/wiki/Rainbow_trout" title="Rainbow trout">rainbow trout</a> (<i>Oncohrynchus mykiss irideus</i>) and possibly <a href="/wiki/Chinook_salmon" title="Chinook salmon">Chinook salmon</a> (<i>Oncorhynchus tshawytscha</i>). Although the latter had been considered now absent from the watershed, in mid-October, 1996, Roger Castillo, the founder of the Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Group, recovered a giant Chinook salmon from San Tomas Aquino Creek beneath <a href="/wiki/California_State_Route_237" title="California State Route 237">Highway 237</a> (see photo). Non-native fishes include <a href="/wiki/Common_carp" title="Common carp">Common carp</a> (<i>Cyprinus carpio</i>), <a href="/wiki/Goldfish" title="Goldfish">Goldfish</a> (<i>Carassius auratus auratus</i>), <a href="/wiki/Golden_shiner" title="Golden shiner">Golden shiner</a> (<i>Notemigonus crysoleucas</i>), and <a href="/wiki/Gambusia_affinis" class="mw-redirect" title="Gambusia affinis">Western mosquitofish</a> (<i>Gambusia affinis</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-Leidy_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leidy-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_watercourses_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area">List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Tomas_Aquino_Creek&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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href="/wiki/Coyote_Creek_(San_Mateo_County)" title="Coyote Creek (San Mateo County)">Coyote Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deer_Creek_(Santa_Clara_County,_California)" title="Deer Creek (Santa Clara County, California)">Deer Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Corte_de_Madera_Creek" title="El Corte de Madera Creek">El Corte de Madera Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guadalupe_River_(California)" title="Guadalupe River (California)">Guadalupe River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guadalupe_Valley_Creek" title="Guadalupe Valley Creek">Guadalupe Valley Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hale_Creek" title="Hale Creek">Hale Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrington_Creek" title="Harrington Creek">Harrington Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Honda_Creek" title="La Honda Creek">La Honda Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laguna_Creek_(Santa_Cruz_County)" title="Laguna Creek (Santa Cruz County)">Laguna Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Boulder_Creek" title="Little Boulder Creek">Little Boulder Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llagas_Creek" title="Llagas Creek">Llagas Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loch_Lomond_(California)" title="Loch Lomond (California)">Loch Lomond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Gatos_Creek_(Santa_Clara_County,_California)" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Gatos Creek (Santa Clara County, California)">Los Gatos Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_Creek" title="Love Creek">Love Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naples_Creek" title="Naples Creek">Naples Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Permanente_Creek" title="Permanente Creek">Permanente Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pescadero_Creek" title="Pescadero Creek">Pescadero Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peters_Creek_(California)" title="Peters Creek (California)">Peters Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pilarcitos_Creek" title="Pilarcitos Creek">Pilarcitos Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Bruno_Creek" title="San Bruno Creek">San Bruno Creek</a></li> <li><a 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