House Creek (California)
House Creek is a 12.3-mile-long stream in the mountains of western Sonoma County, California. It starts on Welbridge Ridge at about 2,200 feet elevation and flows west, then generally north, until it empties into the Wheatfield Fork of the Gualala River about 11 miles north of Fort Ross.
Left-side tributaries include Cedar Creek, Pepperwood Creek, and Allen Creek; right-side tributaries are Britain Creek and Soda Spring Creek. The creek runs along Sewell Road for a short distance, then crosses Stewarts Point Skaggs Springs Road before joining the Wheatfield Fork.
Around 2000, House Creek supported steelhead trout, but by 2002 the fish were severely threatened, leading the NOAA to take action against Hedgpeth Ranch operator James Soper for killing 34 juvenile fish by driving a tractor through the creek.
The Stewarts Point Skaggs Springs Road bridge over House Creek was built in 1921 and widened in 1976 to 34.5 feet. It has three spans, each about 50 feet long. The bridge is about 20.8 miles east of State Route 1 by road, and Sonoma County planned seismic retrofitting in 2002.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 14:02 (CET).