Warm Springs Creek | |
Map Size: | 265 |
Pushpin Map: | California |
Pushpin Map Size: | 265 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the mouth within California |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | United States |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | California |
Subdivision Type3: | Region |
Subdivision Name3: | Riverside County |
Length: | 18miles |
Discharge1 Location: | confluence with Murrieta Creek |
Source1: | formerly in Diamond Valley, now in Domenigoni Valley, west of Diamond Valley Lake |
Source1 Coordinates: | 33.5942°N -117.3181°W |
Source1 Elevation: | 1460feet |
Mouth: | confluence with Murrieta Creek, tributary of the Santa Margarita River |
Mouth Coordinates: | 33.5269°N -117.1853°W |
Mouth Elevation: | 1033feet |
Tributaries Left: | unnamed arroyo from French Valley |
Warm Springs Creek is a stream or arroyo, and a tributary of Murrieta Creek, in Riverside County, Southern California.
The source of Warm Springs Creek was formerly at an altitude of 1580feet in Diamond Valley, but is now under Diamond Valley Lake at . The source is now at an altitude of 1460feet in Domenigoni Valley, west of Diamond Valley Lake and its West Dam.
Warm Springs Creek descends southwest through Domenigoni Valley for 3miles, past the site of the former mining settlement of Leon, and runs near the intersection of Leon Road and Scott Road. There, at 1400feet, it descends into a canyon running south-southwest, passing east of the Murrieta Hogbacks, where an unnamed arroyo that drains French Valley to the northeast joins Warm Springs Creek. It continues past the community of Murrieta Hot Springs (a former census-designated place that is now part of the city of Murrieta) on its east bank, running under Murrieta Hot Springs Road. After it passes under Interstate 15, it reaches its confluence with Murrieta Creek in southwestern Murrieta, within the Temecula Valley, at an elevation of 1033feet.[1]