Sugar Creek (Ohio)

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Sugar Creek is a tributary of the Tuscarawas River in northeastern Ohio in the United States. It is 45 miles (72 km) long. Via the Tuscarawas, Muskingum, and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 356 square miles (922 km²) on glaciated and unglaciated portions of the Allegheny Plateau.

It is the namesake of Sugarcreek, Ohio.

Path of the river

It rises in north-central Wayne County, approximately five miles (8 km) northwest of Smithville, and flows southeastwardly through southwestern Stark County and northwestern Tuscarawas County, past the communities of Smithville, Brewster, Beach City and Strasburg to Dover, where it joins the Tuscarawas River from the west.DeLorme (1991). "Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer". Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. pp. 50-51, 61. ISBN 0-89933-233-1.]

Along its course Sugar Creek collects several tributaries that have been given derivative names:
*Little Sugar Creek [cite web |url=Gnis3|1042639 |title=GNIS entry for Little Sugar Creek (Feature ID #1042639)|author=Geographic Names Information System|authorlink=Geographic Names Information System|accessdate=2007-02-09] flows northwardly through southeastern Wayne County.
*North Fork Sugar Creek, [cite web |url=Gnis3|1043946 |title=GNIS entry for North Fork Sugar Creek (Feature ID #1043946)|author=Geographic Names Information System|authorlink=Geographic Names Information System|accessdate=2007-02-09] which flows to the south of Sugar Creek, rises in southeastern Wayne County and flows eastwardly into southwestern Stark County.
*Middle Fork Sugar Creek [cite web |url=Gnis3|1043276 |title=GNIS entry for Middle Fork Sugar Creek (Feature ID #1043276)|author=Geographic Names Information System|authorlink=Geographic Names Information System|accessdate=2007-02-09] rises in northeastern Holmes County and flows northeastwardly into Stark County, where it joins Sugar Creek from the south at Brewster.
*South Fork Sugar Creek [cite web |url=Gnis3|1066969 |title=GNIS entry for South Fork Sugar Creek (Feature ID #1066969)|author=Geographic Names Information System|authorlink=Geographic Names Information System|accessdate=2007-02-09] rises in northeastern Holmes County and flows north-northeastwardly into northwestern Tuscarawas County, through the community of Sugarcreek.

Beach City Dam, in Tuscarawas County southeast of Beach City and just downstream of the mouth of the South Fork, was constructed in 1936 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the purpose of flood control. [cite web | url = http://www.lrh.usace.army.mil/projects/lakes/bcs/ | title = Beach City Dam | author = United States Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District |authorlink= United States Army Corps of Engineers |accessdate=2007-02-09]

Variant names

According to the Geographic Names Information System, Sugar Creek has also been known historically as:
*Margarets Creek
*Margets Creek
*Margret's Creek
*Margrets Creek

ee also

*List of Ohio rivers

References