Sausal Creek (San Mateo County, California)
| Sausal Creek | |
| Arroyo Sausal, Corte de Madera Creek | |
| stream | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | California |
| Region | San Mateo County |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Bozzo Gulch, Neils Gulch, Bull Run Creek, Dennis Martin Creek |
| City | Portola Valley, California |
| Source | Northeast slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains |
| - location | Portola Valley |
| - elevation | 683 ft (208 m) 372207N 1221316W |
| - coordinates | 37°22′07″N 122°13′16″W / 37.36861°N 122.22111°W |
| Mouth | Confluence with Corte Madera Creek |
| - location | Border of Portola Valley, California and Stanford University |
| - elevation | 354 ft (108 m) |
| - coordinates | 37°23′52″N 122°14′36″W / 37.39778°N 122.24333°WCoordinates: 37°23′52″N 122°14′36″W / 37.39778°N 122.24333°W |
Sausal Creek is a 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km) northwesterly-flowing stream originating in Portola Valley along the northeastern edge of the Windy Hill Open Space Preserve in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, in San Mateo County, California, United States. It joins a nexus of creeks becoming Corte Madera Creek in a natural marsh above Searsville Reservoir on Stanford University lands. Below Searsville Reservoir, Corte Madera Creek joins with Bear Creek to form San Francisquito Creek and flows to San Francisco Bay.
Historically, Sausal Creek also had the names Arroyo Sausal, Arroyo del Sanjon and Sanjon Creek. On the 1899 Palo Alto Topo Map its mainstem was called Corte de Madera Creek and its Neils Gulch tributary was called Sausal Creek. Sausal Creek flows through the Rancho Cañada del Corte de Madera meaning "a place where wood is cut", reflecting the importance of the timber industry in the early days of Portola Valley. "Sausal" is derived from the Spanish word "Sauce" or "Sauz" and mean "willow grove", a name that appears as early as 1853.
Bozzo Gulch is named for Emmanuel Bozzo who had a ranch at the head of the canyon in the 1860s.
Neils Gulch seems to have been modified from Neel Gulch, after David H. Neel, an 1850s settler. It also was called Cañada de Sansevan and Hallidie Gulch.
Bull Run Creek was named by a Southern sympathizer following the Union defeat at the Battle of Bull Run in the early 1860s. It has also been known as Sausal Creek, Willow Creek, Kelley Gulch, Uval Creek, Cañada de Sansevan for William Nichols Sansevain and Smith Gulch, for William R. Smith's steam-powered sawmill.
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