Potrero Creek
Potrero Creek is a minor waterway of Riverside [County, California] in the United States. Potrero Creek has a -long course and flows south through the San Jacinto River basin. Potrero Creek drains about of the San Jacinto Mountains. Potrero joins the San Jacinto River near California [State Route 79], at Gilman [Hot Springs, California]. There are reportedly a small group of cave shelters along Potrero Creek in Massacre Canyon, south of Beaumont, on what was called the Stanton Ranch in 1962. Massacre Canyon supposedly gets its name from a battle that took place around 1540, when Temecula people massacred defenders of a village of the tribe now known as the Soboba Band of [Luiseño Indians], which was called Ivah and was located at what is now Gilman Hot Springs, California.