From there it runs through Los Gatos Canyon, in the eastern foothills of the Diablo Range, then passes across Pleasant Valley, north of Coalinga, where Warthan Creek joins it east of the town.

Some 19th-century maps show Los Gatos Creek and others on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley reaching the North Fork Kings River distributary after it turned south toward Tulare Lake.

Today Los Gatos Creek does not flow east of 1.9 miles northwest of Huron except in times of flood but no farther than the California Aqueduct.

This location became a small Spanish and later a Mexican settlement, and a way station on the El Camino Viejo.

[6] However as late as 1925 the course of Los Gatos Creek east of the Guijarral Hills was referred to as Arroyo Pasajero on a USGS Topographic map of Coalinga.