Crooked_Creek_(Oregon)

Crooked Creek (Oregon)

Crooked Creek (Oregon)

River in Oregon, United States


Crooked Creek is a 51-mile (82 km) tributary of the Owyhee River in the U.S. state of Oregon.[3] The source of Crooked Creek is at an elevation of 3,921 feet (1,195 m) at Crooked Creek Spring,[2] while the mouth is at an elevation of 3,343 feet (1,019 m) near Rome.[1] Crooked Creek has a 1,340-square-mile (3,500 km2) watershed.[4]

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  1. "Crooked Creek". Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). United States Geological Survey (USGS). November 28, 1980. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
  2. Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using GNIS source coordinates.
  3. "Vmap0". GIS-Lab. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
  4. "Oregon Hydrologic Units". United States Geological Survey. 1996. Retrieved September 3, 2010.

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