Description
Cory Creek is located approx. 10 mi. long; heads on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management, flows E into a dry basin where it disappears about 3 miles SW of Hawthorne just inside the Hawthorne Army Depot; Sec 12, T7N, R28W, Secs 7,8,9,4,3,10,11&12, T7N, R29E and Secs 7,8,&9, T7N, R30E, Mount Diablo Meridian
History
named for James Manning Cory (1830-1897), an influential prospector and miner in the area during the early 1860s