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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />OG2!33 <br /> <br />Cimarron Creek drains a northern spur of the San Juan <br />Mountains. It riees at an elevation of'12,OOO feet and flows <br />northward through a narrow valley. This valley narrows to a <br />canyon about a mile long through which the creek flows to its <br />junction with the Gunnison River, just downstream from the <br />Morrow Point Dam now under conetruction. <br /> <br />Cebo1la Creek rises in the San Juan Mountains in the <br />vicinity of Spring Creek Pass at an elevation of more than <br />12,000 feet. It flows northeasterly to its junction with <br />Spring Creek and then in a general northerly direction to Blue <br />Mesa Reservoir. For the most part, the creek flows through <br />narrow valleys or canyons. The only widening of the valley <br />occurs about a mile below Cebolla Hot Springs. <br /> <br />Cochetopa Creek ie a tributary of Tomichi Creek from the <br />south, rising in the Continental Divide in the San Juan <br />Mountains. It flows for about 50 miles in a northerly direc- <br />tion. In T. 46 N., R. 2 E., Ii.M.P.M., Colorado, it is joined <br />by Los Pinos Creek and West Pass Creek; the 3 streams forming <br />a broad valley whose maximum width is about 5 miles and length <br />about 1 miles. At the junction of West Pass Creek and Cochetopa <br />Creek, the valley narrows abruptly to a narrow canyon through <br />which Cochetopa Creek flows to its junction with Tomichi Creek. <br /> <br />Soap Creek rises in Soap basin (lying on the west slopes <br />of West Elk Peak) aDd flows through a canyon to a wide valley, <br />Big Soap Park, formed at the junction with West Soap Creek. <br /> <br />Elevations in the basin range from about 5,100 feet at the <br />mouth of North Fork to more than 14,000 feet in the highest <br />peaks. The headwater areas of the tributaries are largely in <br />Gunnison National Foreet and Uncompahgre National Forest. <br /> <br />Gunnison, with a population (1960) of 3,411, is the seat <br />of Gunnison Count'y and the major trade center of the area. <br />other smaller communities with populations of under 500 are <br />Crested Butte, Almont, Parlin, Doyleville, and lake City. The <br /><' <br />valley is served bYlDl'letranscontinental highway U.S. 50, which <br />paeses through Qunni-son. Tributary valleys are served by <br />Colorado State Highways 92, 114~ 135, 149, and 341. No rail- <br />roads are operating in thie drainage basin. <br /> <br />1 <br />