Wildcat Creek (California)

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name = Wildcat Creek
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country = United States
state = California
region = Contra Costa County
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city = San Pablo
city1 = Richmond
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source = Berkeley Hills
source_location = Tilden Regional Park
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source_elevation_imperial = 1515
source_lat_d = 37 | source_lat_m = 52 | source_lat_s = 55 | source_lat_NS = N
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mouth = Castro Creek
mouth_location = Richmond, California
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Wildcat Creek is a creek over 10 miles (16 km) long which flows through Wildcat Canyon situated between the Berkeley Hills and the San Pablo Ridge, emptying into San Pablo Bay in northern California. The creek originates in Tilden Regional Park just east of Berkeley, California. It feeds the artificial Lake Anza as well as the natural Jewel Lake along its course. In its lower course, it passes through the city of San Pablo and portions of the city of Richmond. Where it exits the hills, it passes through Alvarado Park, which includes a WPA-constructed stone arch bridge over the creek. It also courses through San Pablo's civic center and Davis Park.

Recently the East Bay has seen a renaissance of the native Rainbow Trout in the watershed, and some have been spotted in the creek in Downtown Richmond nesting in submerged shopping carts and other garbage. The fish have also been spotted in Tilden Regional Park in the Berkeley Hills near the park's Merry-Go-Round. [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/22/EBGM2BSL7U53.DTL Born to be wild: Local trout goes global] , "San Francisco Chronicle", by Rick DelVecchio, April 22, 2005, retrieved May 24, 2007]

An 1861 map indicates that Wildcat Creek was called Little San Pablo Creek then. "Big" San Pablo Creek is located in the next drainage east of the drainage of Wildcat Creek. [http://www.fivecreeks.org/images/BancroftCerritodeSanAntonio1961Sharpened3.jpg]

Notes

External links

* [http://glacierbliss.com/ABWildcat/index.html Pictures from the entire length of Wildcat Creek]
* [http://www.sfei.org/HEP/wildcat/index.html History of Wildcat Creek Watershed]

ee also

*List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area