| Stevens Creek Cupertino Creek | |
|---|---|
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Steelhead_trout_digging_redd_March_2013_Stevens_Creek.jpg) Steelhead trout and spawning redd on Stevens Creek | |
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Stevens_creek_watershed.jpg) Stevens Creek watershed (Interactive map) | |
| Native name | Arroyo San José de Cupertino (Spanish)[1] |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Region | Santa Clara County |
| City | Mountain View, California |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Black Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains |
| • location | Monte Bello Open Space Preserve |
| • coordinates | 37°18′40″N 122°11′14″W / 37.31111°N 122.18722°W[2] |
| Mouth | Southwest San Francisco Bay |
• location | Whisman Slough, Mountain View, California |
• coordinates | 37°26′45″N 122°03′49″W / 37.44583°N 122.06361°W[2] |
• elevation | 3 ft (0.91 m)[2] |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Indian Creek (San Leandro River), Bay Creek (San Leandro River), Gold Mine Creek, Swiss Creek, Montebello Creek, Heney Creek |
| Arroyo de San José Cupertino | |
|---|---|
| Designated | December 23, 1964 |
| Reference no. | 800[3] |
Stevens Creek is a 20.9-mile-long (33.6 km)[4] stream in Santa Clara County, California. The creek originates in the Santa Cruz Mountains on the western flank of Black Mountain in the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve near the terminus of Page Mill Road at Skyline Boulevard. It flows southeasterly through the Stevens Creek County Park before turning northeast into Stevens Creek Reservoir. It then continues north for 12.5 miles (20.1 km) through Cupertino, Los Altos, Sunnyvale and Mountain View before emptying into the San Francisco Bay at the Whisman Slough, near Google's main campus.
- ^ Durham, David L. (1998). Durham's Place Names of California's San Francisco Bay Area: Includes Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Alameda, Solano & Santa Clara counties. Word Dancer Press, Sanger, California. p. 707. ISBN 1-884995-14-4. Retrieved Jan 1, 2010.
- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stevens Creek
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Parkswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 15, 2011