Corte Madera Creek (San Mateo County)
Corte Madera Creek is a 7.3-mile-long (11.7 km) creek that flows north-northwest to Searsville Dam and then joins with Bear Creek to form San Francisquito Creek in California.
Looking south across Searsville Reservoir from the dam on Corte Madera Creek
Shot looking southeast from Jasper Ridge's Sun Field Station up the Corte Madera Creek watershed with Russian Ridge on the right and Montebello Ridge on the left.
Corte Madera Creek just below Searsville Dam July 2011
Mouth of Corte Madera Creek (left) at its confluence with Bear Creek (right) forming the San Francisquito Creek mainstem below Searsville Dam
Searsville Dam is a masonry dam in San Mateo County, California, that was completed in 1892, one year after the founding of Stanford University, and impounds Corte Madera Creek to form a reservoir known as Searsville Reservoir or Searsville Lake. Searsville Dam is located in the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve and is owned and operated by Stanford University. Neighboring cities include Woodside and Portola Valley, California.
Searsville Reservoir and dam around 2009 with heavy reservoir siltation visible
The front of the dam in 2013
A frame on the dam which at one time supported a diving platform
Aerial view of Searsville Reservoir with the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and I-280, with San Francisco Bay in the distance
