Five Creek

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name = Five Creek
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image_caption = Five Creek north of the golf course
country = United States
state = California
region = Sonoma County
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city = Rohnert Park, California
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source_location = Rohnert Park, California
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mouth = Laguna de Santa Rosa
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Five Creek is a westward flowing stream that rises in the city of Rohnert Park, California, United States and discharges to the Laguna de Santa Rosa.cite map
publisher=U.S. Geological Survey
title=Cotati
year=2000|series=7.5 minute quadrangle] The creek is channelized as it flows through the city and runs in an artificially rectilinear fashion.cite techreport
title=Environmental Impact Report for the City of Rohnert Park General Plan
institution=Earth Metrics, Inc.
date=March 9, 1990
last=Hogan|first=C. Michael|coauthors=Marc Papineau, Ballard George et al, the City of Rohnert Park, California and the State of California Environmental Clearinghouse, Sacramento
number=Report number 10351] Considered waters of the United States as a jurisdictional matter, Five Creek has potential habitat for the California red-legged frog and the Western pond turtle. [cite web
url=http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:bAbPrv7nkz4J:www.ci.rohnert-park.ca.us/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_view/gid,275/+hinebaugh+creek&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us&client=firefox
title=A Biological Assessment for the UD LLC and Vast Oak Properties
year=2003|publisher=Rohnert Park, California]

The name probably originated as a misreading of "Fire Creek," the name found on older maps.

Course

The route of Five Creek has been obscured by the development of Rohnert Park. A 1916 United States Geological Survey topographic map shows an unnamed westward-flowing creek circling north of Wilfred like Five Creek does today. At that time, the creek's headwaters lay in the Sonoma Mountains just north of Crane Creek. The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) gives Five Creek's source coordinates as coord|38.3552778|-122.6894444, currently a channel on the east edge of Eagle Park. However, satellite photos [cite web
url=http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=38.3552778,-122.6894444&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=16&om=1
title=Google Maps
accessdate=2007-12-31] show this channel connecting to Hinebaugh Creek north of San Mateo Court. A recent topographic map shows Five Creek emerging near the corner of Golf Course Drive and Country Club Drive, its former headwaters having been diverted to Crane Creek.

From Golf Course Drive, Five Creek flows northwest, parallelling Country Club Drive to Fairway Drive. It crosses the golf course, emerging near the end of Fauna Avenue. North of the city limits, it turns abruptly westward and flows under U.S. Route 101 at the Santa Rosa Avenue interchange. West of U.S. Route 101, the channel turns to the southwest, crossing under Milbrae Avenue, Whistler Avenue, Wilfred Avenue, and Rohnert Park Expressway before entering the Laguna de Santa Rosa just east of Stony Point Road. The GNIS gives the mouth coordinates of Five Creek as coord|38.3499144|-122.7322104gnis|223565|Five Creek] . However, satellite images [cite web
url=http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&q=38.349914,-122.73221&ie=UTF8&ll=38.349914,-122.73221&spn=0.012116,0.019956&z=16&om=1
title=Google Maps
accessdate=2007-12-31] and United States Geological Survey topographic maps, show Hinebaugh Creek entering the Laguna at those coordinates. The Five Creek confluence lies about convert|0.5|mi|km|1|abbr=on|lk=on further west.

References

ee also

*Copeland Creek
*List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area