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Boulder Creek (Myer Creek tributary)

stream in Imperial County, California, United States of America

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ25209287 ↗
Source-derived summary

Boulder Creek is a 5-mile (8.0 km) long tributary stream of Myer Creek in Imperial County, California. It has its source at 32°37′39″N 116°05′59″W. The mouth of Boulder Creek is at its confluence with Myer Creek at an elevation of 1,775 feet (541 meters) in In-Ko-Pah Gorge.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Boulder Creek (Myer Creek tributary)” is stream in Imperial County, California, United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Boulder, Creek and Myer, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 47-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Boulder, Creek and Myer is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “stream in Imperial County, California, United States of America” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q25209287. Authority coordinates are 32.655, -116.190. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Boulder Creek (Myer Creek tributary)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Boulder Creek (Myer Creek tributary) primary sources, Boulder Creek (Myer Creek tributary) archive and Boulder research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Boulder Creek (Myer Creek tributary)”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Boulder Creek (Myer Creek tributary)” 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.