Deadman Creek is the main stream creek that becomes the Owens River where Big Springs enters the Deadman Creek channel, "two miles east of the [CalTrans] US395 Crestview maintenance station," near Deadman Summit.https://web.archive.org/web/20100726060520/http://www.news.sierrawave.net/eastern-sierra-news/2039-missing-plane-found-occupants-deceased.html The Sierra Crest demarcates the creek's drainage from the drainage of the Middle Fork San Joaquin River on the west.