What is "elk creek"

Elk Creek may refer to:

Elk Creek is a tributary of Lake Erie in Erie County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The creek is part of the Lake Erie Watershed and has a drainage basin of . Elk Creek is stocked with brown trout and steelhead by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.

Elk Creek is an tributary of Loyalsock Creek in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania in the United States.

Elk Creek joins Loyalsock Creek several miles below Forksville.

Elk Creek is a tributary of the West Fork River, long, in north-central West Virginia in the United States. Via the West Fork, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau. The stream is believed to have been named by an 18th-century trapper and hunter named John Simpson, who encountered herds of elk along the stream.

Elk Creek rises approximately southwest of Philippi in western Barbour County and flows generally west-northwestwardly into Harrison County, where it passes through the communities of Stonewood and Nutter Fort; it flows into the West Fork River in the city of Clarksburg.

According to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, approximately 70% of Elk Creek's watershed is forested, mostly deciduous. Approximately 22% is used for pasture and agriculture, and approximately 3% is urban.

Elk Creek is an tributary of the Rogue River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Beginning at above sea level in the western foothills of the Cascade Range, it flows generally southwest through the Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Elk Creek Project lands to Rogue Elk Park in Jackson County. Here the creek enters the Rogue River downstream from Lost Creek Lake and river miles upstream of the small town of Trail. Elk Creek Dam, an incomplete flood-control structure that blocked fish migration for more than 20 years, was partly demolished in 2008 to restore endangered anadromous fish passage. Subsequent ecological restoration efforts have restored the creek to its original channel.

Elk Creek is a stream in Clayton County, Iowa and Delaware County, Iowa, in the United States. It is a tributary of the Turkey River.

Elk Creek was so named in 1834 when a pioneer saw a herd of elk there.

Elk Creek is a stream in Bourbon and Linn counties, in the U.S. state of Kansas.

Elk Creek was named for the elk seen there by early settlers.

Elk Creek is a stream in Nobles and Rock counties, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is a tributary of the Rock River.

Elk Creek was named for the fact elk were once frequently seen there.

Elk Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

Elk Creek was named for the elk pioneer settlers saw near the stream.

Elk Creek is a tributary, about long, of the Umpqua River in the U.S. state of Oregon. The creek begins near Ben More Mountain in the lower Cascade Range south of Elkhead and flows generally north until passing under Interstate 5 in Scotts Valley. It then turns sharply west, flowing through the small city of Drain before meeting the Umpqua at Elkton. Oregon Route 99 runs along the creek for a short distance south of Drain, and Oregon Route 38 follows the creek from Drain to Elkton.

Before its demolition in 1995, Roaring Camp Bridge, a private covered bridge, spanned Elk Creek about west of Drain. Robert Lancaster built the bridge in 1929 to provide road access to his farm. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, the bridge was delisted after its destruction in 1995.