Deer Creek (Oklahoma)

Not to be confused with Deer Creek, Oklahoma.
Deer Creek
Deer Creek
Deer Creek (Oklahoma) is located in Oklahoma
Deer Creek (Oklahoma)
Location of mouth
Location
CountryUnited States
StateOklahoma
Physical characteristics
Mouth 
 • coordinates
35°46′14″N 97°33′00″W / 35.770679°N 97.550131°W / 35.770679; -97.550131

Deer Creek is a stream that flows from rural Canadian County[1] through portions of Oklahoma County and Logan County. It joins with Cottonwood Creek in rural Logan County near the community of Seward, Oklahoma. Cottonwood Creek continues on to join with the Cimarron River near Guthrie, Oklahoma. Like Cottonwood Creek, portions of Deer Creek are prone to flooding.[2][3][4]

The most significant tributary of Deer Creek is Bluff Creek (and upstream to Lake Hefner, a major water reservoir and recreational lake in Oklahoma City.[5]

Deer Creek Public Schools takes its name from the creek.[citation needed]

Most of the creek's path goes through the northern portions of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

  1. ^ Coordinates: 35.60294038812145, -97.8128480113758
  2. ^ "High water in Deer Creek area forces officials to close school" The Oklahoman (Nov. 8, 2011) Archived October 26, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Snider, Adam "In your corner: It's a pain in the rear : County negotiations stall on massive Deer Creek logjam" (Mar. 24, 2021) Accessed Oct. 26, 2021.
  4. ^ "State appropriates $250,000 for massive logjam". 19 January 2022.
  5. ^ Donnelly, Claire "How curious: Is Lake Hefner in the wrong place?" KGOU.org (Nov. 12, 2018) Accessed Oct. 26, 2021.