Cañada Honda Creek (Spanish: deep little canyon) is a perennial stream in Santa Barbara County, California, United States,[1] that lies almost entirely within Vandenberg Space Force Base and meets the Pacific Ocean just north of Point Pedernales.[2] Cañada Honda is part of the larger Santa Barbara coastal plain water resource subbasin (USGS hydrologic unit code 18060013).[3]
The stream "rises on the west slope of the Lompoc Hills, at altitude 1,200 feet (370 m) above sea level; flows north of west to the point at which it enters the Pacific."[4] Cañada Honda runs for about 9 miles (14 km),[2] and drains a watershed of 12 square miles (31 km2).[5][6] The creek is "inaccessible, for the most part, due to the steep cliffs and densely-vegetated riparian woodland."[6] The creek supports a population of tidewater goby.[5] The creek lent its name to Honda station when "the last link of the Southern Pacific coast line between Surf and Ellwood was completed in 1900."[7] There is a railroad bridge over the creekbed at the ocean.[8]
The Honda Formation is a geological formation of "several thousand feet of clay shale exposed only in the extreme western Santa Ynez Mountains at Cañada Honda, from 1 mile to 4 miles east of Point Pedernales."[9]
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- ^ "Cañada Honda Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
- ^ a b Becker, Gordon S. (2008). Steelhead/rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss) Resources South of the Golden Gate, California. Center for Ecosystem Restoration and Management. p. 278.
- ^ "USGS Links for HUC 18060013 - Santa Barbara Coastal". water.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
- ^ Wood, Beatrice Dawson; Hoyt, J.C. (1913). Gazetteer of surface waters of California Part III: Pacific coast and Great basin streams (Report). Water Supply Paper 297. p. 41. doi:10.3133/wsp297.
- ^ a b Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Program: Environmental Impact Statement. 1998. pp. 3.57, 3.134.
- ^ a b "Natural resources of coastal wetlands in northern Santa Barbara County / prepared by Clark R. Mahrdt ... [et al.]". HathiTrust. pp. 21, 37. hdl:2027/uc1.31822011271087. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
- ^ Gudde, Erwin G. (1998). California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names. University of California Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-520-26619-3.
- ^ Rider, Fremont; Cooper, Frederic Taber (1925). Rider's California: A Guide-book for Travelers, with 28 Maps and Plans, Compiled Under the General Editorship of Fremont Rider. Macmillan. pp. 323–324. ISBN 978-1-4047-5079-1.
- ^ "Geology of southwestern Santa Barbara County, California, Point Arguello, Lompoc, Point Conception, Los Olivos, and Gaviota Quadrangles". HathiTrust. p. 22. hdl:2027/uc1.31822030577167. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
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