Bear Creek (Colusa County)

Bear Creek
Bear Creek as it flows through the Bureau of Land Management's Cache Creek Natural Area
Location of the river mouth in California
Location
Country	United States
State	California
Region	Colusa County (Cache Creek Watershed)
Physical characteristics
Source	Mill Creek (Mendocino National Forest)
• elevation	3,830 ft (1,170 m)
2nd source	Bear Creek
• elevation	2,212 ft (674 m)
Source confluence	Bear Valley
• elevation	1,331 ft (406 m)
Mouth	Cache Creek
• location	Cache Creek Canyon
• coordinates	38°55′35″N 122°20′0″W / 38.92639°N 122.33333°W / 38.92639; -122.33333
• elevation	641 ft (195 m)
Length	30 mi (48 km)
Basin size	130 sq mi (340 km2)
Discharge
• location	Holsten Chimney Canyon Stream Gauge , CA
• average	37.5 cu ft/s (1.06 m3/s)
• minimum	0 cu ft/s (0 m3/s)
• maximum	8,510 cu ft/s (241 m3/s)
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	Sulphur Creek, Trout Creek

Bear Creek is one of two primary tributaries to Cache Creek in the U.S. state of California, the other being the North Fork of Cache Creek. It is the only tributary to Cache Creek not impounded by a dam; the North Fork is impounded by Indian Valley Dam and Reservoir, while the Cache Creek main stem is impounded by Cache Creek Dam.^[1]

Because of elevated mercury levels in fish, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment recommends that no one eat fish or shellfish from this water body.^[2]