Grave Creek (Oregon)

Grave Creek
Grave Creek
	Grave Creek Bridge carries Sunny Valley Loop Road over the creek.
	Location of the mouth of Grave Creek in Oregon
Etymology	The grave of a child, Martha Leland Crowley, who died near the creek in 1846
Location
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Douglas, Jackson, and Josephine
Physical characteristics
Source	Cedar Springs Mountain
• location	Klamath Mountains, Douglas County, Oregon
• coordinates	42°45′26″N 123°07′41″W / 42.75722°N 123.12806°W
• elevation	4,556 ft (1,389 m)
Mouth	Rogue River
• location	about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Galice, Josephine County, Oregon
• coordinates	42°38′54″N 123°35′05″W / 42.64833°N 123.58472°W
• elevation	623 ft (190 m)
Basin size	163 sq mi (420 km2)
Discharge
• location	near Placer
• average	132 cu ft/s (3.7 m3/s)
• minimum	1 cu ft/s (0.028 m3/s)
• maximum	8,000 cu ft/s (230 m3/s)

Grave Creek is a tributary, about 40 miles (64 km) long, of the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon in the United States.

^ ^a ^b ^c "Grave Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved June 1, 2009.
^ McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003). Oregon Geographic Names (Seventh ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. pp. 424–25. ISBN 0-87595-277-1.
^ Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) source coordinates.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Grave Creek Water Quality Restoration Plan 2001" (PDF). Bureau of Land Management, Medford District Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 16, 2009. Retrieved June 3, 2009.
^ ^a ^b "USGS 14372000 Grave Creek near Placer, Oregon". United States Geological Survey (USGS). Retrieved June 3, 2009.The average flow was derived by adding the average annual flows from this discontinued gauge for the years 1951–54 and dividing by 4.