West Union Creek
| West Union Creek | |
| stream | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | California |
| Region | San Mateo County |
| Tributaries | |
| - right | McGarvey Gulch, Squealer Gulch, Tripp Gulch, Appletree Gulch |
| City | Woodside, California |
| Source | Kings Mountain a summit in the Santa Cruz Mountains |
| - location | Woodside |
| - elevation | 1,600 ft (488 m) |
| - coordinates | 37°26′48″N 122°19′29″W / 37.44667°N 122.32472°W |
| Mouth | Bear Gulch Creek |
| - location | Adobe Corner, Woodside, California |
| - elevation | 390 ft (119 m) |
| - coordinates | 37°25′30″N 122°16′01″W / 37.42500°N 122.26694°WCoordinates: 37°25′30″N 122°16′01″W / 37.42500°N 122.26694°W |
West Union Creek is a 4.5-mile-long (7.2 km)stream originating on the east slope of Kings Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains, in San Mateo County, California, United States. It flows easterly down to the valley formed by the San Andreas Rift where it turns near the Phleger Estate to flow southeasterly on an unusually level course (for a mountain stream) to Adobe Corner in the town of Woodside where it joins Bear Gulch Creek, which in turn flows to San Francisquito Creek and ultimately, San Francisco Bay.
In August 1840, the Governor of Spanish California granted the land, later called Rancho Cañada de Raymundo, to John Coppinger, an Irishman who had become a naturalized Mexican citizen. This 12,545-acre rancho contained the 973 acres which are now Huddart County Park. The area Redwoods were an important source of lumber exports. According to Mexican government records of 1841, 100,000 board feet of wood were ready at the embarcadero near Mission Santa Clara for export to the Hawaiian Islands, presumably the source of this timber was Coppinger's Rancho. Willard Whipple was one of many area lumbermen who dragged logs to the port at Redwood City. His Whipple's Mill Road has come to be known as Whipple Avenue. He was a Union sympathizer in the Civil War and named the creek on which his mills operated West Union Creek. Whipple built his steam-powered Upper Mill in late 1852 at the site of today’s Phleger House (now occupied by Intel founder, Gordon E. Moore) on the Phleger Estate.
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