Smoke Creek (New York)

Smoke Creek (also known as Da-deo-da-na-suk-to ("bend in the shore"[1]),[2] Smoke's Creek or Smokes Creek) is a small stream in Erie County, New York. It originates southwest of East Aurora and flows into Lake Erie at Lackawanna. The height above sea level is 174 metres (571 ft). A left tributary is the South Branch Smoke Creek.[3] The watershed area of Smoke Creek measures about 85 square kilometres (33 sq mi).[4]

The creek is named after "Old Smoke," the English name for Sayenqueraghta, a prominent Seneca chief.

  1. ^ Beauchamp, William M. (1907). Aboriginal Place Names of New York. New York State Education Department. p. 62. Retrieved Feb 3, 2018.
  2. ^ Da-deo-da-na-suk-to Smoke Creek in GNIS
  3. ^ Decision Card (Board on Geographic Names Decisions)
  4. ^ Town of Hamburg Local Waterfront Revitalization Program 1990 (PDF, 7,9 MB Archived 2010-12-18 at the Wayback Machine), p. 47