Cañada Honda Creek Explained
Cañada Honda Creek (Spanish: deep little canyon) is a perennial stream in Santa Barbara County, California, United States, that lies almost entirely within Vandenberg Space Force Base and meets the Pacific Ocean just north of Point Pedernales.[1] Cañada Honda is part of the larger Santa Barbara coastal plain water resource subbasin (USGS hydrologic unit code 18060013).[2]
The stream "rises on the west slope of the Lompoc Hills, at altitude above sea level; flows north of west to the point at which it enters the Pacific."[3] Cañada Honda runs for about, and drains a watershed of .[4] The creek is "inaccessible, for the most part, due to the steep cliffs and densely-vegetated riparian woodland."[5] The creek supports a population of tidewater goby. The creek lent its name to Honda station when "the last link of the Southern Pacific coast line between Surf and Ellwood was completed in 1900."[6] There is a railroad bridge over the creekbed at the ocean.[7]
The Honda Formation is a geological formation of "several thousand feet of clay shale exposed only in the extreme western Santa Ynez Mountains at Cañada Honda, from 1 mile to 4 miles east of Point Pedernales."[8]
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Notes and References
- Book: Becker, Gordon S. . Steelhead/rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss) Resources South of the Golden Gate, California . 2008 . Center for Ecosystem Restoration and Management . 278 . en.
- Web site: USGS Links for HUC 18060013 - Santa Barbara Coastal . 2024-01-22 . water.usgs.gov.
- Gazetteer of surface waters of California Part III: Pacific coast and Great basin streams . Wood . Beatrice Dawson . Hoyt . J.C. . 1913 . 10.3133/wsp297 . 41 . en . Water Supply Paper 297.
- Book: Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Program: Environmental Impact Statement . 1998 . 3.57, 3.134 . en.
- Web site: Natural resources of coastal wetlands in northern Santa Barbara County / prepared by Clark R. Mahrdt ... [et al.] ]. 2024-01-22 . HathiTrust . 21, 37 . 2027/uc1.31822011271087?urlappend=%3Bseq=35 . en.
- Book: Gudde, Erwin G. . California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names . 1998 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-26619-3 . 169 . en.
- Book: Rider . Fremont . Rider's California: A Guide-book for Travelers, with 28 Maps and Plans, Compiled Under the General Editorship of Fremont Rider . Cooper . Frederic Taber . 1925 . Macmillan . 978-1-4047-5079-1 . 323–324 . en.
- Web site: Geology of southwestern Santa Barbara County, California, Point Arguello, Lompoc, Point Conception, Los Olivos, and Gaviota Quadrangles . 2024-01-22 . HathiTrust . 22 . 2027/uc1.31822030577167?urlappend=%3Bseq=26 . en.
