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Snell Creek
38°42′13″N 122°24′41″W / 38.70361°N 122.41139°W[1]
Snell Creek is a 2.1-mile-long (3.4 km)[2] watercourse in Napa County, California.[3] It is situated approximately five miles north of Aetna Springs and is a tributary of Butts Creek, which ultimately merges into Putah Creek.[4]
Plants edit
Snell Valley is noted for its biodiversity of flora, and within Snell Valley is the Missimer Wildflower Preserve. An example of wildflowers in the Snell Creek watershed is yellow mariposa lily, Calochortus luteus.[5]
Line notes edit
- ^ "Snell Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 10, 2011
- ^ David L. Durham. 2001
- ^ Putah Creek Watershed. sacriver.org, accessed April 6, 2018
- ^ C. Michael Hogan. 2009
References edit
- David L. Durham. 2001. Durham's place names of California's old wine country, page 65
- C. Michael Hogan. 2009.