Redwood Creek, San Mateo County
| Redwood Creek | |
| Stream | |
 Aerial view of the mouth of Redwood Creek on San Francisco Bay at the port of Redwood City, California
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| Name origin: Spanish language | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | California |
| Region | San Mateo County |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Arroyo Ojo De Agua |
| - right | Arroyo Salinas |
| City | Redwood City, California |
| Primary source | Arroyo Ojo De Agua |
| - location | Redwood City |
| - coordinates | 37°27′27.8″N 122°15′58.9″W / 37.457722°N 122.266361°W |
| Secondary source | Arroyo Salinas |
| - location | Woodside, California |
| - coordinates | 37°26′35.4″N 122°15′39.4″W / 37.443167°N 122.260944°W |
| Source confluence | Redwoods Embarcadero Creek |
| - coordinates | 37°29′12.8″N 122°13′38.3″W / 37.486889°N 122.227306°W |
| Mouth | Redwood Slough |
| - coordinates | 37°31′35.1″N 122°11′46.4″W / 37.526417°N 122.196222°WCoordinates: 37°31′35.1″N 122°11′46.4″W / 37.526417°N 122.196222°W |
| Depth | 30 ft (9 m) |
| Discharge | |
| - average | 1,370 cu ft/s (39 m3/s) |
| - max | 14,000 cu ft/s (396 m3/s) |
| - min | 17 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
 Location of the mouth in the San Francisco Bay area
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Redwood Creek is a 9.5-mile-long (15.3 km) perennial stream located in San Mateo County, California, United States which discharges into South San Francisco Bay. The Port of Redwood City, the largest deepwater port in South San Francisco Bay, is situated on the east bank of Redwood Creek near its mouth, where the creek becomes a natural deepwater channel.
The creek and city name, the latter first known as Red Woods City (1854), was named because of the nearby Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forest and lumbering industry. In 1851, a deep-water channel that ran inland to what is now Redwood City was discovered off of San Francisco Bay. Named Redwood Creek, this channel was used by the lumber companies to ship wood and logs from the redwood forests in the peninsula hills to San Francisco. A shipbuilding industry emerged, the first schooner was built in 1851 by G.M. Burnham and appropriately named "Redwood." Wooden shipbuilding remained an active industry until the last wooden ship built in Redwood City, called the "Perseverance," was launched in 1883. The shipbuilding industry experienced a revival in the 1918s with the building of the first concrete ship in America, the SS Faith.
Redwood Creek begins in the Woodside Glens neighborhood of Woodside, California just south of Interstate 280, below the terminus of Farm Hill Boulevard. It descends below Interstate 280 on the west side of Woodside Road, passing through the Menlo Country Club. At Alameda de las Pulgas it becomes an engineered concrete channel to El Camino Real, where it is briefly daylighted before entering underground culverts in downtown Redwood City. The primary tributary to Redwood Creek is a stream named Arroyo Ojo de Agua which meets it underground at approximately Broadway Street in Redwood City. As it crosses below US Highway 101 it becomes a tidal channel. Extensive mudflats and marsh areas are found along Redwood Creek near its mouth. Several side channel sloughs connect to Redwood Creek, the largest of which is Westpoint Slough.
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