Ward Creek (Lake Tahoe)

This article is about the Ward Creek tributary to Lake Tahoe. For Ward Creek disambiguation page, see Ward Creek (disambiguation).

Ward Creek
Wards Creek[1][2]
The mouth of Ward Creek on Lake Tahoe
Ward Creek (Lake Tahoe) is located in California
Ward Creek (Lake Tahoe)
Location of the mouth of Ward Creek in California
Native namedagásliʔ (Washo) [3]
Location
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
RegionPlacer County
CitiesPine Land, Timberland
Physical characteristics
SourceBetween Ward Peak and Twin Peaks[4] in the Granite Chief Wilderness of the Sierra Nevada Mountains
 • coordinates39°07′10″N 120°14′20″W / 39.11944°N 120.23889°W / 39.11944; -120.23889[2]
 • elevation7,940 ft (2,420 m)[5]
MouthLake Tahoe
 • location
Tahoe Pines
 • coordinates
39°07′45″N 120°09′18″W / 39.12917°N 120.15500°W / 39.12917; -120.15500[2]
 • elevation
6,234 ft (1,900 m)[2]
Beaver lodge on a side creek of Ward Creek, tributary to Lake Tahoe

Ward Creek is a 6.1-mile (9.8 km) eastward-flowing stream in Placer County, California, United States.[5] The creek flows into Lake Tahoe 2.7 miles (4.3 km) south of Tahoe City, California, and has undergone extensive restoration to reduce sediment and surface run-off to maintain the purity of Lake Tahoe.

  1. ^ Barbara Lekisch (1988). Tahoe Place Names: the Origin and History of Names in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Lafayette, California: Great West Books. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-944220-01-6. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ward Creek
  3. ^ "The Washo Project Online Dictionary". Retrieved May 27, 2012.
  4. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Twin Peaks
  5. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed July 16, 2013