Watershed Descriptions

Davenport – Back to Study Area

Map of Davenport watershed

Area¹: 273,963 km²

Planning Watersheds¹: 8

Description: The Davenport watershed is located along the Pacific coast and comprises much of northern Santa Cruz County. The communities of Davenport, Bonny Doon, and Swanton are located in the Davenport watershed. It contains most of Big Basin Redwoods State Park and Wilder Ranch State Park, and the Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve. To interactively explore features of this watershed, visit the Interactive Mapping section of this Web site.

Streams²:

Archibald Creek (2.6 km)
Baldwin Creek (6.8 km)
Berry Creek (5.1 km)
Big Creek (11.4 km)
Boyer Creek (4.8 km)
East Branch Liddell Creek (2.9 km)
Henry Creek (2.1 km)
Kelly Creek (1.5 km)
Laguna Creek (13.3 km)
Last Chance Creek (2.0 km)
Liddell Creek (5.1 km)
Little Creek (4.7 km)
Maddocks Creek (1.1 km)

Majors Creek (8.6 km)
Mill Creek (13.7 km)
Molino Creek (5.9 km)
Opal Creek (6.3 km)
Reggiardo Creek (3.1 km)
Rogers Creek (1.2 km)
San Vincente Creek (14.8 km)
Scott Creek (16.3 km)
Sempervirens Creek (3.8 km)
Union Creek (2.6 km)
West Liddell Creek (4.3 km)
West Waddell Creek (12.4 km)

Salmonids³:

coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Watershed Groups: Scott Creek Watershed Council

Watershed Plans:

The Relationship between Instream Flow and Coho Salmon and Steelhead Habitat Availability in Scott Creek, Santa Cruz County, California (1995)

Road and Landslide Sediment Source Investigation and Sediment Reduction Plan For the Scotts Creek Watershed Santa Cruz County, California (2000)

Ownership⁴: State, Military, and Private

Landcover and Landuse⁵:

Pie Chart

Source Information:

¹California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Watersheds (CALWATER 2.2) for Hydrologic Sub-Area Name and Planning Watershed Name (see metadata for srp_calw22)
²U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Stream Reach File 3 (see metadata for srp_rf3)
³Personal communication: Jerry Smith (San Jose), Don Alley (Brookdale), Kristen Schroeder (Santa Cruz County), 2004.
County of Santa Cruz Map of Steelhead and Coho Salmon Distribution in Santa Cruz County, May 2004.
⁴California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Conservation and Public Lands (Legacy Project) (see metadata spr_govtowna)
⁵California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Multi Source Landcover Data (2002) (see metadata srp_fveg)