What is "sugar creek"

Sugar Creek or Sugarcreek may refer to:

Sugar Creek is an tributary of the Driftwood River in east-central Indiana in the United States. Via the Driftwood, White, Wabash and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.

Sugar Creek was likely so named from the sugar trees growing along its banks.

Sugar Creek is a waterway located in the U.S. state of Indiana. It originates in a farm field approximately two miles south of Kempton, Indiana, and travels west-southwest for about before merging with the Wabash River north of Montezuma. No notably large communities are built along it except for Crawfordsville.

Sugar Creek flows through two Indiana state parks, Shades and Turkey Run, and is a popular tourist and canoeist attraction. The creek and its many small tributaries are notable for the picturesque canyons and small waterfalls they've created in the area's rocky terrain. The fictional The Sugar Creek Gang series of books is based along this creek.

The Darlington Covered Bridge spans Sugar Creek in Franklin Township, Montgomery County, Indiana. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Image:Sugar Creek Turkey Run SP, IN 2.jpg|Sugar Creek as it passes through Turkey Run State Park Image:Sugar Creek panorama.png|A panorama of Sugar Creek in Shades State Park

Sugar Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Bradford County, Pennsylvania in the United States.

Sugar Creek joins the Susquehanna River near the borough of Towanda.

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 and of townships in Stark, Tuscarawas and Wayne counties Ohio.

Sugar Creek is a 2007 film. It is a supernatural western thriller, set in 1889 and filmed in Arkansas.

Sugar Creek, a tributary of the Sangamon River, is a large creek in central Illinois. It rises in Talkington Township in southwestern Sangamon County, flows briefly through northeastern Macoupin County, and then runs northeastward through south-central Sangamon County before discharging into Lake Springfield. The creek drains Auburn and Virden, Illinois and has a total length of .

Sugar Creek is a tributary of Middle Island Creek, long, in northwestern West Virginia in the United States. Via Middle Island Creek and the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of in a rural region on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.

McKim Creek rises northeast of Wick in southwestern Tyler County and flows generally westward into eastern Pleasants County, through the unincorporated communities of Wick and Meadville in Tyler County and Twiggs in Pleasants County. It flows into Middle Island Creek at the community of Sugar Valley, upstream of Middle Island Creek's confluence with the Ohio River in St. Marys.

According to the Geographic Names Information System, Sugar Creek has also been known historically by the name "Owlshead Run."

Sugar Creek is a stream in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States. It is a tributary of Duck River.

Sugar Creek was named for the sugar maple trees ( Acer saccharum) growing along its banks.

Sugar Creek is a stream in Fillmore County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

Sugar Creek was named for the sugar maple trees lining its banks.

Sugar Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is a tributary of the Ottawa River (Auglaize River).

Sugar Creek was named for the sugar maple trees which once grew in abundance along its course.

Sugar Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is a tributary of the Little Miami River.

Sugar Creek was named for the sugar maple trees along its course.

Sugar Creek, also called Sugaw Creek, is a small tributary of the Catawba River in North and South Carolina in the United States. Its takes its name from a Native American (probably Catawba) word sugaw said to mean "collection of huts" (compare Catawba suk, "house"), which was anglicized Sugar in the name of the street which runs by the creek (Sugar Creek Road) and Sugaw in the name of Sugaw Creek Park and the Presbyterian church located by it.

During the Battle of Charlotte in the American Revolutionary War, as William Richardson Davie's forces withdrew from Charlotte on 26 September 1780, captain Joseph Graham was wounded at Sugaw Creek but survived and went on to fight again at the Battle of Cowan's Ford.

For a time, effluent from Charlotte's sewers and industries was dumped into the creek.