Media Aqua Creek

River in California, United States
35°25′39″N 119°56′15″W / 35.42750°N 119.93750°W / 35.42750; -119.93750[1] Mouthmouth
 • location
San Joaquin Valley, Kern County
 • coordinates
35°31′42″N 119°52′37″W / 35.52833°N 119.87694°W / 35.52833; -119.87694[1]
 • elevation
896 ft (273 m)[1]

Media Aqua Creek, originally Aguaje de en Media (Middle Watering Place), is a creek in northwestern Kern County and eastern San Luis Obispo County, central California.[2]

The stream's headwaters are in the Temblor Range, at an unnamed spring in San Luis Obispo County, 0.8 miles south of the Kern County−San Luis Obispo County border. It flows east-northeast to terminate in the San Joaquin Valley, 3 miles southeast of the former Twisselmann Ranch in Kern County.[1]

El Camino Viejo history

Aguaje de en Media (Middle Watering Place) was a watering stop on the 19th century El Camino Viejo of Alta California, between the stops of Arroyo de Los Carneros to the south and Aguaje Del Diablo to the west.[2] It was officially named Media Agua Creek in 1909.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Media Agua Creek
  2. ^ a b - Mildred Brooke Hoover, Mildred Brooke Hoover, Historic spots in California, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1990, p.89