Lichau Creek
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Lichau Creek is an Script error: No such module "convert".[1] southwest-flowing stream in Sonoma County, California, United States, which flows through the town of Penngrove and discharges into the Petaluma River.
The original name of the creek is O'Hara Creek and is named after the settler, John O'Hara, who purchased and owned the land through which the creek flows. O'Hara was born in 1833 in County Sligo, Ireland and settled in Penngrove sometime between 1852 and 1857 and died in 1911 at the age of 78 years. The October 26, 1904, Santa Rosa Republican refers to this creek as O'Hara Creek.[2]
Course
The creek springs from the western side of Sonoma Mountain between Copeland Creek and Lynch Creek. Descending initially to the west, it crosses under Sonoma Mountain Road and passes north of Stony Butte. After crossing East Railroad Avenue and Petaluma Hill Road, it flows under the Northwestern Pacific Railroad tracks. It immediately bends southward and parallels the tracks through Penngrove, crossing Adobe Road and Main Street.
On the northern outskirts of Petaluma, it crosses Ely Road and turns southwestward, crossing Old Redwood Highway, the North McDowell Boulevard Extension, U.S. 101, and Stony Point Road to reach the Petaluma River.
Flora and fauna
A 1968 survey of Lichau Creek[3] found algae, duckweed, cattails, dragonflies, dipterous insects, caddisflies, frogs, steelhead trout, and sticklebacks living in the creek.
Bridges
At least three bridges span the creek:[4]
- Petaluma Hill Road crosses Script error: No such module "convert". north of Old Redwood Highway on a Script error: No such module "convert". concrete continuous tee beam built in 1920 and reconstructed in 1976.
- East Railroad Avenue crosses Script error: No such module "convert". east of Petaluma Hill Road on a Script error: No such module "convert". concrete culvert built in 1970.
- Adobe Road crosses Script error: No such module "convert". east of Old Redwood Highway on a Script error: No such module "convert". concrete tee beam built in 1929.
See also
References
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Template:Webarchive, accessed March 9, 2011
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