Ingram Creek, originally Arroyo de la Suerte,[1] is a 14-mile-long (23 km)[2] tributary of the San Joaquin River in Stanislaus County, in the San Joaquin Valley of California.[3]
The mouth of Ingram Creek is located at 37°36′52″N 121°12′24″W / 37.61444°N 121.20667°W / 37.61444; -121.20667 at an elevation of 46 feet (14 m) where it has its confluence with a slough of the San Joaquin River. The upper reach of the creek runs through Ingram Canyon.[4] The source of Ingram Creek is located at the head of Ingram Canyon at the confluence of the source of Ingram Creek is located at the confluence of Grummett Creek[5] and Cedar Spring Gulch[6] at 37°31′27″N 121°20′31″W / 37.52417°N 121.34194°W / 37.52417; -121.34194 at an elevation of 880 feet (270 m). Its headwaters are in the Diablo Range. It is a western tributary of the San Joaquin River.[7]
Ingram Creek eroded from the following formations; the Franciscan Assemblage, Mesozoic ultrabasic intrusive rocks, and marine sediments of Upper Cretaceous, Paleocene and Eocene age.[8] Marine sediments have been leached by groundwater, causing an elevated concentration of brine in the groundwater at depths of approximately 600 feet.
37°36′52″N 121°12′24″W / 37.614375°N 121.206605°W / 37.614375; -121.206605[9]