Dry Well Creek | |
Pushpin Map: | USA Oregon |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the mouth of Dry Well Creek in Oregon |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | United States |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | Oregon |
Subdivision Type4: | County |
Subdivision Name4: | Harney |
Source1: | Dry Well Spring |
Source1 Location: | Malheur National Forest |
Source1 Coordinates: | 43.9019°N -119.3919°W |
Source1 Elevation: | 5696feet[1] |
Mouth: | Emigrant Creek |
Mouth Coordinates: | 43.8842°N -119.4183°W[2] |
Mouth Elevation: | 5000feet |
Dry Well Creek is a stream in Harney County, Oregon, United States in the Harney Basin of Eastern Oregon.[2] Its mouth is at an elevation of 5000feet.[2] It is among streams in the drainage basin of Malheur Lake, a Great Basin water body with no outlet.[3]
Dry Well Creek is an intermittent fish-bearing stream that flows into Emigrant Creek, a tributary of the Silvies River.[4] The creek is part of a watershed restoration project.[4] Resident aquatic species in the project area include Great Basin redband trout, Malheur mottled sculpin, speckled and longnose dace, redside shiners, bridgelip suckers, Columbia spotted frogs, crayfish and western pearlshell mussels.[4]