Killbuck Creek

Killbuck Creek is a tributary of the Walhonding River,[1] 81.7 mi (131.5 km) long,[2] in north-central Ohio in the United States. Via the Walhonding, Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. It drains an area of 613 mi² (1588 km²).[2]

For the tributary of the Kishwaukee River, see Killbuck Creek (Kishwaukee River).
Map of the Walhonding watershed showing Killbuck Creek
A bridge over the creek near its headwaters west of Creston

Killbuck Creek rises in northern Wayne County and initially flows in a counter-clockwise loop northward into southern Medina County and past the town of Burbank before turning to a southward course through Wayne, Holmes and Coshocton Counties to its mouth at the Walhonding River,[3] 5 mi (8 km) west of the city of Coshocton.[1] Along its course it flows to the west of the city of Wooster and passes the towns of Holmesville, Millersburg and Killbuck.[3]

A USGS stream gauge on the creek at Layland recorded a mean annual discharge of 502 cubic feet per second (14.2 m3/s) during water years 1924-1930.[4] According to a US Environmental Protection Agency estimate, the mean annual discharge of the creek at its mouth is 625.34 cu ft/s (17.708 m3/s).[5]

Name

Killbuck Creek and the town of Killbuck are named for the Shawnee war chief Bemino (fl. 1710s–1780s) — known as John Killbuck, Sr, to the whites.[6] According to the Geographic Names Information System, the stream has been known and spelled variously over the years:[7]

  • Kilbuck Creek
  • Killbuck Run
  • Killbucks Creek
  • Kilbuck River
  • Kill-Buck River

The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Killbuck Creek" as the stream's name in 1963.

See also

References
  1. "Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry". Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2006-05-08.
  2. Ohio Department of Natural Resources. A Guide to Ohio Streams. Archived 2005-09-04 at the Wayback Machine Chapter 10: Major Ohio Watersheds (pdf)
    • DeLorme (1991). Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-233-1
  4. "USGS Surface Water data for Ohio: USGS 03139500 Killbuck Creek at Layland OH". waterdata.usgs.gov. Archived from the original on 2020-08-06. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  5. United States Environmental Protection Agency. "Watershed Report: Killbuck Creek". Archived from the original on 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  6. Hunt, William Ellis (1876). Historical Collections of Coshocton County, Ohio: A Complete Panorama of the County, from the Time of the Earliest Known Occupants of the Territory Unto the Present Time, 1764-1876. R. Clarke & Company. p. 14.
  7. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Killbuck Creek

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