page_title: Goose Creek (Snake River tributary)
hierarchical_section_title: Goose Creek (Snake River tributary)
caption_attribution_description: English: View southwest up Goose Creek from Goose Creek Road (Elko County Route 762) about 16.8 miles east of Little Goose Creek in Elko County, Nevada
context_page_description: Goose Creek is a 123-mile long tributary of the Snake River. Beginning at an elevation of 7,239 feet in the Cassia Division of the Sawtooth National Forest in southwestern Cassia County, Idaho, it flows south into Elko County, Nevada, and loops back around into Cassia County, briefly crossing Box Elder County, Utah, in the process. It is impounded by Oakley Dam several miles south of Oakley, Idaho, forming Lower Goose Creek Reservoir. All of the creek's water is stored for irrigation, so its channel from the reservoir to its mouth near Burley, Idaho, is dry and largely obliterated by agriculture. Goose Creek has a 1,120-square-mile watershed. The California Trail followed Goose Creek from a point just north of the Idaho/Utah border southwest across northwestern Utah to Little Goose Creek in northeastern Elko County, Nevada.
  The stream was named for the geese along its course.
context_section_description: Goose Creek is a 123-mile (198 km) long tributary of the Snake River. Beginning at an elevation of 7,239 feet (2,206 m) in the Cassia Division of the Sawtooth National Forest in southwestern Cassia County, Idaho, it flows south into Elko County, Nevada, and loops back around into Cassia County, briefly crossing Box Elder County, Utah, in the process. It is impounded by Oakley Dam several miles south of Oakley, Idaho, forming Lower Goose Creek Reservoir. All of the creek's water is stored for irrigation, so its channel from the reservoir to its mouth near Burley, Idaho, is dry and largely obliterated by agriculture. Goose Creek has a 1,120-square-mile (2,901 km²) watershed. The California Trail followed Goose Creek from a point just north of the Idaho/Utah border southwest across northwestern Utah to Little Goose Creek in northeastern Elko County, Nevada.
  The stream was named for the geese along its course.
caption: Goose Creek in Elko County, Nevada
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