Red Bank Creek
{{Distinguish|Redbank Creek (Pennsylvania)}}
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| image = Downstream elevation of truss span, view to southwest along Red Bank Creek. - Red Bank Creek Bridge, Spanning Red Bank Creek at Rawson Road, Red Bluff, Tehama County, CA HAER CAL,52-REBLU.V,2-9.tif
| image_caption = Old Red Bank Creek Bridge at Red Bluff
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| subdivision_name5 = Red Bank, Red Bluff
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| mouth = Sacramento River
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Red Bank Creek is a major stream in Tehama County, California, and a tributary of the Sacramento River. About {{convert|39|mi|km}} long, it originates in the foothills of the Coast Ranges, near the boundary of the Mendocino National Forest, and flows east across the Sacramento Valley to join the Sacramento River near Red Bluff. Red Bank Creek, like the other streams draining this part of the western Sacramento Valley, is a highly seasonal stream that flows only during the winter and spring.{{cite web|url=http://www.sacriver.org/aboutwatershed/roadmap/watersheds/westside/tehama-west-watershed|title=Tehama West Watershed|publisher=Sacramento River Watershed Program|date=|accessdate=2016-12-05}}
Old Red Bank Creek Bridge at Red Bluff was built by the Pacific Bridge Company in 1894.{{Cite web |url=https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/pnp/habshaer/ca/ca2100/ca2166/data/ca2166data.pdf |title=Red Bank Creek Bridge |last1=Snyder |first1=John W. |last2=Petershagen |first2=George F. |date=1995 |work=Historic American Engineering Record |publisher=Library of Congress |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=February 24, 2023 |page=1}} According to a 1983 news article about a hazardous chemical spill into the creek following a 38-car railroad derailment stated "Red Bank Creek curls around the sprawling Diamond International lumber mill before emptying into the Sacramento River just above the Red Bluff Diversion Dam, where water is sent into the Tehama and Colusa canals".{{Cite web |title=Chico News and Review 15 December 1983 — California Digital Newspaper Collection |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CNR19831215.2.27 |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=cdnc.ucr.edu}}
The creek was named for the reddish character of its clay banks.{{cite web | url=http://www.tehamaschools.org/files/TC%20Place%20Names.pdf | title=Place Names | publisher=Tehama County Department of Education | accessdate=25 March 2018 | pages=45 | url-status=bot: unknown | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508070312/http://www.tehamaschools.org/files/TC%20Place%20Names.pdf | archivedate=8 May 2017 }} The creek has also been known as Red Bluff Creek, Redbank Creek and Baranca Colorada (Spanish for "red canyon").
History
According to research by C. Hart Merriam (published by UC Berkeley) the Wi-e'-ker'-ril band of the Wintun people lived along Red Bank Creek. Earlier writers described these people as the "Wylacker and Noemuc," or Northern Wintoon.{{Cite web |title=Reports of the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY NO. 68, PART I ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTES ON CALIFORNIA INDIAN TRIBES C. Hart Merrimack Compiled and Edited by Robert F. Heizer University ofCalifornia Archaeological Research Facility Department of Anthropology Berkeley October 1966 |url=https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucas068-001.pdf |page=18}}
In 1863 there was a California militia training camp along Red Bank Creek called Camp Ellis.page 1 - Weaverville Weekly Trinity - December 10, 1864
http://newspaperarchive.com/us/california/weaverville/weaverville-weekly-trinity-journal/1864/12-10/{{Cite web |title=CAMP ELLIS, November 1, 1863 - page images 163–164 - A Yankee trader in the gold rush; the letters of Franklin A. Buck |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/30029653/ |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}{{Cite book |last=Dayton |first=Dello Grimmett |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2TPcYVRw3EC&q=%22camp+ellis%22+1863+chico |title=The California Militia, 1850-1866 |date=1951 |publisher=University of California |language=en}} The camp was disbanded on November 4 and "the Companies marched into Red Bluff and dismissed".{{Cite news |date=1863-11-07 |title=The Encampment |pages=2 |work=The Shasta Courier |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-shasta-courier-the-encampment/134645996/ |access-date=2023-11-05}}
As of 1887, Albert Gallatin owned a 64,000 acre ranch sited between Red Bank Creek and Thomes Creek.{{Cite web |date=1887-08-13 |title=Sacramento Daily Record Union Archives, Aug 13, 1887, p. 2 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/sacramento-daily-record-union-aug-13-1887-p-2/ |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=NewspaperArchive.com |language=en}} As of 1888 he reportedly owned 80,000 acres and was trying to induce his "old friend" Collis P. Huntington to open a railway route from Red Bluff through his land along Red Bank though Yolla Bolly–Middle Eel Wilderness area to Humboldt Bay; a competing proposed route was from Red Bluff through the Cottonwood district along Cottonwood Creek.{{Cite web |date=1888-05-11 |title=Railroad Building - Sacramento Daily Record Union Archives, May 11, 1888, p. 4 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/sacramento-daily-record-union-may-11-1888-p-4/ |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=NewspaperArchive.com |language=en}}
Ecology
Fish of Red Bank Creek include California roach, rainbow trout, Sacramento perch, Sacramento pikeminnow, Sacramento splittail, Sacramento sucker, speckled dace, and others.{{Cite report |title=Tehama West Watershed Assessment Executive Summary |publisher=Tehama County Resource Conservation District |last=VESTRA Resources, Inc. |location=Redding, California |date=April 2006 |url=https://www.tehamacountyrcd.org/files/d144b28c3/Tehama+West+Watershed+Assessment+Executive+Summary.pdf |pages=13–14 (fishies) }}
See also
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External links
- {{Cite news |title=Stolen Jewels Recovered in Red Bluff |newspaper= Chico Weekly Enterprise |date=4 January 1907 |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CWE19070104.2.77 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}