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Mission Creek (from Spanish: ''misión'') is a river in
Watershed map, access date December 31, 2008 The two Ramaytush Indian villages of Chutchui and Sitlintac were located on Mission Creek.
A community of house boats has existed along the creek's south bank since 1960 when the state of California moved the houseboat community there from Islais Creek to make way for merchant ship trading.
The mouth of Mission Creek has been known to
''Vanished Waters of Southeastern San Francisco'' by William Crittenden Sharpsteen''Water Water'' by Chris Carlsson''Mission Creek'' by Chris Carlsson
Rivers of San Francisco Mission District, San Francisco Subterranean rivers of the United States Rivers of Northern California Tributaries of San Francisco Bay
San Francisco, California
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...
. Once navigable from the Mission Bay inland to the vicinity of Mission Dolores, where several smaller creeks converged to form it, Mission Creek has long since been largely culvert
A culvert is a structure that channels water past an obstacle or to a subterranean waterway. Typically embedded so as to be surrounded by soil, a culvert may be made from a pipe (fluid conveyance), pipe, reinforced concrete or other materia ...
ed. Its only remaining portion above-ground is the Mission Creek Channel which drains into China Basin.Museum of CaliforniaWatershed map, access date December 31, 2008 The two Ramaytush Indian villages of Chutchui and Sitlintac were located on Mission Creek.
Background
The Spanish named the waterway, ''Arroyo de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores'', in English, "Our Lady of Sorrows Creek." It's Spanish dedication to, ''Señora de los Dolores,'' eventually gave the Mission San Francisco de Asís founded near its source, its alternate informal name, ''Mission Dolores''. Declared by the state legislature in 1854 to be a navigable stream, it retains the designation today, even though most of it was vacated for use by boats in 1874 and later filled in.Soil liquefaction
Soil liquefaction occurs when a cohesionless saturated or partially saturated soil substantially loses Shear strength (soil), strength and stiffness in response to an applied Shear stress, stress such as shaking during an earthquake or other s ...
, such as that which killed numerous people in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
At 05:12 AM Pacific Time Zone, Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated Moment magnitude scale, moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli inte ...
, has been known to occur along buried portions of the creek.
The China Basin Building was erected on the creek's north bank in the 1920s and used for off-loading and processing bananas through the 1950s. In the 1970s it was known as the Del Monte Building and used as a food distribution site by the Hearst family in response to the demands of the SLA.
A community of house boats has existed along the creek's south bank since 1960 when the state of California moved the houseboat community there from Islais Creek to make way for merchant ship trading.
The mouth of Mission Creek has been known to Major League Baseball
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fans as McCovey Cove ever since the year 2000 when the San Francisco Giants
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relocated from their former home at Candlestick Park
Candlestick Park was an outdoor stadium located in the Bayview-Hunters Point, Hunters Point area of San Francisco, California, United States. It was originally the home of Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants, who played there from 1960 S ...
to Oracle Park on the creek's north bank. Balls hit over the right field wall splash-land in the water there.
Lake Dolores
The ''Laguna Dolores'' was fed by the creek. It was the site of the original Mission Dolores, and probably stretched between Mission Street and Valencia, and 20th and 16th streets before being filled in with sand.References
Bibliography
* *{{cite book , first1 = Nancy , last1 = Olmsted , first2 =Chris , last2 = Carlsson, first3 = Bob , last3 = Isaacson , edition =2nd , title = Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco's Mission Bay , location = San Francisco , publisher = Mission Creek Conservancy , date = 2010External links
''Vanished Waters of Southeastern San Francisco'' by William Crittenden Sharpsteen
Rivers of San Francisco Mission District, San Francisco Subterranean rivers of the United States Rivers of Northern California Tributaries of San Francisco Bay