San Timoteo Creek
| San Timoteo Creek | |
| San Timoteo Wash | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | California |
| Counties | San Bernardino, Riverside |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Coopers Creek |
| - right | Noble Creek, Little San Gorgonio Creek, Yucaipa Creek |
| Source | Confluence of Little San Antonio Creek and Noble Creek |
| - location | San Bernardino Mountains |
| - elevation | 2,430 ft (741 m) |
| - coordinates | 33°56′28″N 117°0′22″W / 33.94111°N 117.00611°W |
| Mouth | Santa Ana River |
| - location | Near Loma Linda |
| - elevation | 1,004 ft (306 m) |
| - coordinates | 34°04′10″N 117°16′50″W / 34.06944°N 117.28056°WCoordinates: 34°04′10″N 117°16′50″W / 34.06944°N 117.28056°W |
| Basin | 125 sq mi (324 km2) |
| Discharge | for near Loma Linda |
| - average | 4.29 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
| - max | 15,000 cu ft/s (425 m3/s) |
| - min | 0 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
 Map of the Santa Ana River drainage basin
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San Timoteo Creek (also called San Timoteo Wash, colloquially known as San Tim) is a stream in Riverside and San Bernardino counties in southern California, United States. A tributary of the Santa Ana River, it flows through San Timoteo Canyon. San Timoteo Creek has a drainage basin of about 125 square miles (320 km2). The creek receives most of its water from headwater tributaries flowing from the San Bernardino Mountains near Cherry Valley, as well as Yucaipa Creek, which flows from Live Oak Canyon.
In the past the creek was intermittent. Today it now flows year-round due to agricultural runoff and secondary treatment discharge from a water treatment plant in Yucaipa.
The name "San Timoteo" was given to the creek and canyon around 1830. It is Spanish for Saint Timothy.
San Timoteo Creek is formed by the confluence of Little San Antonio Creek and Noble Creek west of Beaumont. Coopers Creek joins from the southeast just before the San Timoteo enters the San Timoteo Canyon. The San Timoteo flows northwest through San Timoteo Canyon, north of The Badlands in the southern hills of Redlands. Yucaipa Creek, flowing from Live Oak Canyon, joins San Timoteo Creek in San Timoteo Canyon. After the creek leaves the canyon it flows through Bryn Mawr and Loma Linda to its mouth on the Santa Ana River, near the I-10 and I-215 interchange.
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