Eighteen Mile Creek (Erie County)

This article is about the Lake Erie tributary in Erie County. For the Lake Ontario tributary in Niagara County, see Eighteen Mile Creek (Niagara County).
Eighteen Mile Creek
Eighteen Mile Creek in Hamburg, New York.
Eighteen Mile Creek (Erie County) is located in New York
Eighteen Mile Creek (Erie County)
Location of the mouth of Eighteen Mile Creek in New York State.
Eighteen Mile Creek (Erie County) is located in the United States
Eighteen Mile Creek (Erie County)
Eighteen Mile Creek (Erie County) (the United States)
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
RegionWestern New York
CountyErie County
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationConcord
 • coordinates42°33′23″N 78°41′28″W / 42.55639°N 78.69111°W / 42.55639; -78.69111[1]
2nd sourceSouth Branch Eighteen Mile Cr.
 • locationNorth Collins
 • coordinates42°32′17″N 78°45′51″W / 42.53806°N 78.76417°W / 42.53806; -78.76417[2]
Source confluence 
 • locationHamburg
 • coordinates42°41′58″N 78°54′12″W / 42.69944°N 78.90333°W / 42.69944; -78.90333[2]
MouthLake Erie
 • location
Highland-on-the-Lake
 • coordinates
42°43′05″N 78°58′09″W / 42.71806°N 78.96917°W / 42.71806; -78.96917[1]
Basin size310 km2 (120 sq mi)
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • rightSouth Branch Eighteen Mile Cr.

Eighteen Mile Creek (also known as Eighteenmile Creek) is a tributary of Lake Erie located in southern Erie County, New York, United States.[1] The creek is the second largest tributary of Lake Erie in New York State.[3]

The name is derived from the creek's distance south of the Niagara River in Buffalo. The creek was named Koughquaugu Creek by the Seneca Nation.[4]

  1. ^ a b c "Eighteenmile Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  2. ^ a b "South Branch Eighteenmile Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
  3. ^ "Coastal Fish & Wildlife Habitat Rating Form - Eighteen Mile Creek - Lake Erie" (PDF). Dos.ny.gov. New York State Department of State. October 15, 1987. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
  4. ^ Beauchamp, William Martin (1907). Aboriginal Place Names of New York (New York State Museum Bulletin, Volume 108). New York State Education Department. p. 64. ISBN 9781404751552. Retrieved December 11, 2015.