Prairie Creek

Prairie Creek is the Redwood Creek tributary drainage basin including the inland portion of Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. Prairie Creek drains southerly through a Plio-Pleistocene non-marine sedimentary and metasedimentary formation to a confluence with Redwood Creek approximately one mile upstream of Orick, California.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Redwood National Park.

Redwood National Park

Photo: Phoebe, Public domain.

Redwood National and State Parks is a United States national park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the North Coast of the state of California. The park protects several groves of massive redwood trees, which can live for 2000 years, grow to heights of up to 367 feet, and be as wide as 22 feet at the base of the trunk.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Orick.

Orick

Village

Photo: LittleT889, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Orick is a census-designated place situated on the banks of the Redwood Creek in Humboldt County, California, United States. It is located 43 miles north of Eureka, at an elevation of 26 feet.

Prairie Creek

Type: Stream
Description: river in the United States of America
Categories: river and body of water
Location: Humboldt County, North Coast, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.29985° or 41° 17′ 60″ north

Longitude

-124.05063° or 124° 3′ 2″ west

Elevation

39 feet (12 metres)

Open location code

84HQ7WXX+WP

GeoNames ID

5569788

Wikidata ID

Q7237840

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Prairie Creek” goes by many names.

Catalan: “Prairie Creek”
Cebuano: “Prairie Creek (suba sa Tinipong Bansa, California, Humboldt County, lat 41,30, long -124,05)”
Cebuano: “Prairie Creek”
Venetian: “Prairie”
Vietnamese: “lạch Prairie”

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