San Felipe Creek (Santa Clara County, California)
| San Felipe Creek | |
| San Felipe River | |
| stream | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | California |
| Region | Santa Clara County |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Boyds Creek, Cow Creek (San Felipe Creek), Carlin Canyon Creek |
| Source | Master's Hill in the western Diablo Range |
| - location | Western edge of Joseph D. Grant County Park |
| - elevation | 2,200 ft (671 m) |
| - coordinates | 37°20′19″N 121°44′07″W / 37.33861°N 121.73528°W |
| Mouth | Confluence with Las Animas Creek, just upstream of Anderson Lake |
| - location | 8 mi (13 km) west of Milpitas, California |
| - elevation | 650 ft (198 m) |
| - coordinates | 37°12′48″N 121°39′24″W / 37.21333°N 121.65667°WCoordinates: 37°12′48″N 121°39′24″W / 37.21333°N 121.65667°W |
| Length | 14 mi (23 km) |
San Felipe Creek is a 14 miles (23 km) stream that originates in the western Diablo Range in Santa Clara County, California. It flows south by southeast through two historic ranchos, Rancho Los Huecos and Rancho Cañada de San Felipe y Las Animas before it joins Las Animas Creek just above Anderson Reservoir. One of the nine major tributaries of Coyote Creek, the creek’s waters pass through the Santa Clara Valley and San Jose on the way to San Francisco Bay.
The San Felipe Creek and San Felipe Valley place names are preserved in the records of the Rancho Cañada de San Felipe y Las Animas Mexican land grants in 1938 and 1844. The creek was called San Felipe River on Wilkes’s map of 1841.
The families of HP pioneers Bill Hewlett and David Packard bought the lands of the San Felipe Valley, and assembled the 28,359 acres (114.76 km2) San Felipe Ranch. Maintained as a working ranch for some 50 years, the ranch is now protected by a Nature Conservancy conservation easement.
San Felipe Creek begins on the eastern side of Master's Hill, just west of Joseph D. Grant County Park. It descends east along Quimby Road into the park just south of the Mt. Hamilton Road and park entry kiosk and Visitor's Center. From there it heads south through Hall's Valley and then the San Felipe Valley, picking up Boyds Creek, Cow Creek and then Carlin Canyon Creek (all enter San Felipe Creek from the left heading downstream). It traverses 14 miles (23 km) and its watershed drains 8 square miles (21 km2) before it joins Las Animas Creek just above Anderson Reservoir.
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