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To my knowledge, there is no known Ohlone name for the creek. Not to say there never was one, but there are sadly not many sources on Ohlone toponymy. That being said, when I have a chance I will go on a little research adventure to see if I can find a name. Best, Cristiano Tomás (talk) 17:23, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
That's a good question, one I'm not sure if anyone today knows the answer, if there even was an answer. The lower part of the creek, through the flat portions of Fremont and Union City, didn't really exist prior to colonization, and was originally a floodplain until it was channelized by ranchers, farmers, and eventually governments. That era of the ecology was ultimately thoroughly destroyed by the construction of the current concrete channelization, spurred by a giant flood in the 1950s. You can see the older path as what is currently called "Old Alameda Creek", but again, that's just one of the main channels constructed prior to the 1950s, the original geography was a bunch of meandering little streams through tules, like what you see in Stivers Lagoon or down by some of the salt flats today, but encompassing nearly all of what is now Fremont. The creek is pretty well defined through Niles Canyon, but once you go upstream of that, the set of tributaries the name "Alameda Creek" follows is pretty arbitrary -- e.g., there's no real geological reason for why it follows the fork it does instead of Arroyo de la Laguna, and repeat for all the other major tributaries, and then the not-so-major ones. You also have a good chunk of the Sunol Valley where most of the water flowed through the porous soil as an aquifer, with just some smaller branching streams on the surface
It's possible all the Ohlone who lived in the area had a shared name for what we now call the Alameda Creek Watershed, that would make a lot of sense given the above (those who lived there would presumably know "water from all these places ultimately ends up in the bay around these places"), but I don't have any sources for what that name would be. The main tribes/villages along the watershed were the Tuibun, who lived at what became the current mouth of the river, by the shell mounds in Coyote Hills Regional Park; the Causen/Patlans around Sunol Valley; the Pelnen, Seunen, and Ssouyen in the Livermore Valley; and the Tuanan in the mountains south of Livermore Valley. They definitely communicated with each other and shared a language, but those places are also far enough that I don't know whether they would have shared the same name for the streams and creeks near each of their respective villages the way we have. I would definitely love to know though. Tga (talk) 17:41, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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