The Stuart Fork Trinity River (also called Stewart's Fork) is a tributary of the Trinity River in the U.S. state of

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

. The Trinity river rises in the

Trinity Alps The Trinity Alps are a mountain range in Trinity County and Siskiyou County in Northern California. They are a subrange of the Klamath Mountains located to the north of Weaverville. Geography The Trinity Alps are within the Pacific Coast Ran ...

and flows generally southeast into

Trinity Lake Trinity Lake, previously called Clair Engle Lake, is an artificial lake on the Trinity River formed by the Trinity Dam and located in Trinity County, California, United States. The dam was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The lake's cap ...

, a reservoir formed by the

Trinity Dam Trinity Dam is an earthfill dam on the Trinity River located about northeast of Weaverville, California in the United States. The dam was completed in the early 1960s as part of the federal Central Valley Project to provide irrigation water to ...

, just north of Buckeye Ridge. Important tributaries include Deer and Hobel Creeks; the last of the river is submerged in the lake. Stuart Fork drains an area of roughly and is one of the most important tributaries to the upper Trinity River. In the 1850s the Stuart Fork of the Trinity River was an important gold mine area, and was dredged by several mining companies. When the Trinity Lake levels are low you can still see large piles of tailings.

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Rivers of Trinity County, California Tributaries of the Klamath River Rivers of Northern California {{California-river-stub