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San Emigdio Creek
San Emigdio Canyon Rick Bisaccia 2014-09.jpg
San Emigdio Creek Canyon in the San Emigdio Mountains, looking north
Native name Arroyo de San Emigdio
Other name(s) San Emidio Creek
Country United States
State California
Region Kern County
Physical characteristics
Main source source
Mount Pinos (northeast slopes), San Emigdio Mountains
7,000 ft (2,100 m)
34°49′42″N 119°06′03″W / 34.82833°N 119.10083°W / 34.82833; -119.10083
River mouth mouth
4 miles southwest of Lake View (Kern County), San Joaquin Valley
597 ft (182 m)
35°03′31″N 119°10′49″W / 35.05861°N 119.18028°W / 35.05861; -119.18028

San Emigdio Creek, formerly Arroyo de San Emigdio (Spanish for Saint Emygdius Creek), is a 33 kilometres (21 mi) northward-flowing stream in western Kern County, central California.

Geography

The San Emigdio Creek headwaters are on the northeast slope of Mount Pinos, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Tecuya Ridge in the San Emigdio Mountains. The creek flows north through San Emigdio Canyon to terminate 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Lakeview in the western San Joaquin Valley.

In years of heavy rainfall it would be a tributary to the Connecting Slough, the slough between Kern Lake and Buena Vista Lake which has been dry for decades due to agricultural diversion, pumping, and a lowering groundwater table.

History

Arroyo San Emigdio was a stream whose canyon provided the route followed by the 18th-19th century El Camino Viejo, through the San Emigdio Mountains between the Cuddy Valley and San Joaquin Valley. Its mouth provided a watering place between Cuddy Valley in the south and Arroyo de Amargosa (Bitterwater Creek) to the northwest near Buena Vista Lake.

The place where the creek emerged from the foothills of the San Emigdio Mountains was the location of Mexican land grant Rancho San Emidio of Alta California, granted in 1842 to José Antonio Dominguez. The location was a rancho and station of Mission Santa Barbara as early as 1824, and the 1842 land grant continued the rancho.

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