Coyote Wash (California)[1]
Location
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
RegionImperial County
Physical characteristics
Sourceeastern slope of Jacumba Mountains
  coordinates32°42′06″N 116°02′46″W / 32.70167°N 116.04611°W / 32.70167; -116.04611
  elevation1,830 ft (560 m)
Mouthterminus of the wash into the sands west of New River.
  coordinates
32°48′35″N 115°48′04″W / 32.80972°N 115.80111°W / 32.80972; -115.80111
  elevation
0 ft (0 m)
Length22 mi (35 km)
Discharge 
  locationterminus of the wash into the sands west of New River
Basin features
Tributaries 
  leftSouth Fork Coyote Wash
  rightPalm Canyon Wash, Myer Creek

Coyote Wash, an arroyo, and ephemeral stream or wash running east from the Jacumba Mountains through Coyote Wells where it broadens into a wide sandy wash, takes in Myer Creek, South Fork Coyote Wash, Palm Canyon Wash and passes Sackett's Wells, then a point 1.5 miles the north of Plaster City, from which it flows toward the New River, where it sinks into the sands just below sea level, west of the river, in the Yuha Desert in Imperial County, California.[2]

History

Sackett's Wells a well on the route of the desert crossing of the Southern Emigrant Trail from the Colorado River Yuma Crossings to coastal Southern California was located on Coyote Wash. Sackett's Wells was the site of one of the later stagecoach stations of the 2nd Division of the Butterfield Overland Mail. It was established as a place to provide water and to hold a change of coach teams mid way between the original stations in the desert regions of the route.

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Coyote Wash (California)
  2. Plaster City, CA, Painted Gorge, CA and In-Ko-Pah Gorge, CA, USGS Topographic maps]
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