Coyote is an unincorporated community in Santa Clara Valley astride Coyote Creek and between San Jose and Morgan Hill's Madrone district in Santa Clara County. Part of Coyote is inside the city limits of San Jose. Its ZIP Code is 95013, and there is a small U.S. Post Office. It is inside telephone area codes 408 and 669.
Coyote Grange Hall, September 22, 2012
Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County)
Coyote Creek is a river that flows through the Santa Clara Valley in Northern California. Its source is on Mount Sizer, in the mountains east of Morgan Hill. It eventually flows into Anderson Lake in Morgan Hill and then northwards through Coyote Valley to San Jose, where it empties into San Francisco Bay.
Coyote Creek (lower right) where it flows into San Francisco Bay
Coyote Creek aerial view from the south in San Jose, from south of Hellyer County Park up to Interstate 280
Beaver dam on Coyote Creek in San Jose November, 2018, Courtesy South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition.
Anderson Reservoir, above Morgan Hill and San Jose, California, near capacity, two weeks after its overflow flooded neighborhoods in San Jose in 2017