Historical Features are physical or cultural features that are no longer visible on the landscape. Examples: a dried up lake, a destroyed building, a hill leveled by mining. The term makes no reference to the age, use, or any other aspect of the feature. A ghost town, for example, is not a historical feature if it is still visible.
Arroyo - Colloquial usage in southwestern United States. The valley of an ephemeral stream with a flat floor
and steep banks or the ephemeral stream flowing through a valley with a flat floor and steep banks,
either hydrographic or hypsographic (draw, wash, gully).