Cassia Creek is a stream in
Cassia County, Idaho, United States, that is a
tributary
A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they ...
of the
Raft River (a tributary of the
Snake River).
Description
Rising in the
Albion Mountains within the
Sawtooth National Forest (about midway between the cities of
Oakley and
Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two ...
) Cassia Creek flows easterly to quickly leave the national forest and then pass along the western edge of the
unincorporataed community of
Elba. It then flows northeasterly between the Albion Mountains (on northwest) and the
Jim Sage Mountains (on the southeast), roughly paralleling
Idaho State Highway 77 Spur, until it passes south of the unincorporated community of
Connor.
From Connor, the creek flows easterly again (with the
Cotterel Mountains on the north and the Jim Sage Mountains on the south) out of the mountains and into the
Raft River Valley as it roughly parallels
Idaho State Highway 77 (SH‑77). The creek then flows northeasterly in the Raft River Valley (still roughly paralleling SH‑77) to pass along the southeastern edge of city of
Malta
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. Finally, it flows northerly through
agricultural land
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in the Raft River Valley to its mouth on the Raft River, about north–northeast of Malta. (The Raft River flows north to the Snake River, a tributary of the
Columbia River
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.)
Most of Cassia Creek is along a section of the
California Trail. The creek is a recommended fishing water by the
Idaho Department of Fish and Game.
See also
*
List of rivers of Idaho
References
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Rivers of Idaho
Rivers of Cassia County, Idaho