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Housing Units (2000): 38
Land area (2000): 156.434530 sq. miles (405.163555 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.067306 sq. miles (0.174322 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 156.501836 sq. miles (405.337877 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20020
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 63.683609 N, 144.604040 W
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Headwords:
Dry Creek
Housing Units (2000): 153
Land area (2000): 8.702924 sq. miles (22.540470 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.702924 sq. miles (22.540470 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21755
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.751029 N, 94.882700 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Dry Creek
Wikipedia
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Dry Creek is a stream in the California counties of Sonoma and Mendocino. It is a tributary of the Russian River, with headwaters in Mendocino County.
The Dry Creek Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area.
Dry Creek may refer to:
Dry Creek is a stream in Stanislaus County, California, that is a tributary to the Tuolumne River.
Dry Creek (formerly called Linda Creek) is a long stream in Placer County and Sacramento County, California, United States, tributary to the Sacramento River. Its watershed lies within the Sacramento Valley. Because suburban development borders much of its length, the stream is noted for its capacity to cause local flooding and as a recreational attraction.
Dry Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary of Tunitas Creek.
Dry Creek is a stream in northern California which runs from the Sierra Nevada to the Mokelumne River west of Galt.
Dry Creek is a tributary, long, of Crooked Creek in the U.S. state of Oregon. The creek, which is intermittent, begins in the desert near Five Points in Malheur County. It joins Crooked Creek east of Burns Junction and about south of the larger stream's confluence with the Owyhee River. Dry Creek drains a basin of about .
Forming northeast of Five Points, Dry Creek flows north, then west, across Squaw Flat in southern Malheur County near the border with the U.S. state of Nevada. Near Garlow Butte, Coyote Creek enters from the left, and near Caviatta Ridge, Peacock Creek enters from the left. West of Caviatta Ridge, the creek turns north and receives Corbin Creek from the right. Dry Creek flows through Blevins Reservoir and then Rockhouse Reservoir before turning west again and receiving Indian Fort Creek from the right. Turning north, it joins Crooked Creek just south of U.S. Route 95 about halfway between Burns Junction and Rome.
Coyote Creek, which has an undefined basin, is about long. Peacock Creek is about long and drains a basin of about . Corbin Creek is about long; its basin covers roughly . Indian Fort Creek, which flows through Scott Reservoir, is about long, and it drains a watershed of about .
Dry Creek is a common name for streams in Oregon. The Geographic Names Information System list 96 streams by that name. The National Hydrography Dataset contains 91 of those streams. Nine of them are over 15 miles in length, they are listed below.
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Dry Creek
Crooked Creek
1120133
Malheur |--
Dry Creek
Owyhee River
1120135
Malheur |--
Dry Creek
Pine Creek
1141312
Umatilla |--
Dry Creek
Jordan Creek
1141298
Malheur |--
Dry Creek
Goose Lake
1141293
Lake |--
Dry Creek
Fifteenmile Creek
1120126
Wasco |--
Dry Creek
Fort Rock Valley
1141299
Lake, Klamath |--
Dry Creek
Catlow Valley
1120131
Harney |--
Dry Creek
Willow Creek
1141311
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Dry Creek or Dry Creek Drain is a seasonal stream in South Australia. In season it flows from its source near Yatala Vale in the Mount Lofty Ranges to the Barker Inlet of the Gulf St Vincent via a manufactured drain near Globe Derby Park. It passes through Modbury, Walkley Heights and Pooraka.
The suburb of Dry Creek and Dry Creek railway station are named after the stream.
Yatala Labour Prison was established in the 1850s next to Dry Creek and was alternately known at the time as the Dry Creek Prison or the Stockade. Dry Creek is mostly dry in summer and flows through a deep gully at the rear of the prison with outcrops of exposed pre-Cambrian rocks that were extensively quarried as part of prison activity.
Dry Creek is a stream in Boone and Kenton counties, Kentucky, in the United States. It is a tributary of the Ohio River.
Dry Creek was so named from low water levels during dry weather.
A large wastewater treatment plant has operated on Dry Creek since 1979.
Dry Creek is a stream in Catoosa County and Whitfield County, Georgia, in the United States.
Dry Creek was named from the fact it runs dry in times of drought.
Dry Creek is a stream in Redwood and Cottonwood counties, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is a tributary of the Cottonwood River.
Dry Creek was named from the fact it is a losing stream during times of drought.
Dry Creek is a tributary of Martins Creek in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately long and flows through Brooklyn Township and Lathrop Township. The watershed of the creek has an area of . The creek is not designated as an impaired waterbody and is a Coldwater Fishery and a Migratory Fishery. The surficial geology in its vicinity consists of Wisconsinan Till, a lake, and some alluvium in the lower reaches.
Usage examples of "dry creek".
If he charged me in among those deadfalls, that dry creek bed and the brush, I'd have no more chance than a hen at a hoboes' picnic.
The good thing so far is that we know where the fire is coming from and that it's following the dry creek bed.
When I came back from school, I'd ride her all over the desert, out to the opal beds and down to the Indian digs, across the dry creek beds.
As the county road completed its turn to the west, it crossed a small stone bridge over a dry creek bed.
We encamped a little below the entrance of the large dry creek called Lark Creek, having traveled but 23 miles since noon.
He had blown away, into a dry creek in Mexico--cold every night, cold every day, wind all the time, sand in the food, sand in the coffee, no houses and no coziness of any kind.
I looked across the dry creek bed and up the one winding street that was residential Bendo.
Not a part of this haggard me, this squalid shack teetering on the edge of a dry creek, this bulging, unlovely, ungainly creature muddying her face in the coarse gravel of a barren hillside.
Past the dry creek where Lawrence had bagged breakfast, over a low ridge, the texture of the world's walls looked slightly different.
As they continued northward, the dry creek split into several tributaries, separated by jumbled piles of stone and small outcrops.
He pointed around the gentle slope between the thicket and the dry creek.
The group was walking across the dry creek to where the field mess was set up.
I'm just saying that on the far side of that dry creek there's a rise.
The rabbit bounded on, down into the dry creek bed, losing itself among the cattails.