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Adobe Gulch

valley in California, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ4683985 ↗
Source-derived summary

Adobe Gulch is a valley in San Mateo County, California, United States, about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) long, located on the west side of Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir. It has an elevation of 97 meters, or 318 feet. It is located at 37-29'53 N and 122-20'51 W. Adobe Gulch is the northernmost of several tributaries (and the only one named by the USGS) that descend the eastern flank of the Santa Cruz Mountains to Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir (and historically, Laguna Creek).

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“Adobe Gulch” enters the record as valley in California, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Adobe, Gulch and valley can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 82-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Adobe, Gulch and valley.
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“Adobe Gulch” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Adobe, Gulch and valley provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4683985. Authority coordinates are 37.498, -122.347. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Adobe Gulch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.