Monday Creek
| Monday Creek | |
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Monday Creek near Nelsonville in 2006
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| Country | United States |
| Basin features | |
| Main source |
Perry County, Ohio, approximately 2 mi (3 km) north of Shawnee Approx. 820 ft (250 m) 39°37′48″N 82°11′54″W / 39.63000°N 82.19833°W |
| River mouth |
Hocking River in Athens County, Ohio, approximately 2 mi (3.2 km) southeast of Nelsonville 659 ft (201 m) 39°25′01″N 82°11′34″W / 39.41694°N 82.19278°WCoordinates: 39°25′01″N 82°11′34″W / 39.41694°N 82.19278°W |
| Basin size | 116 sq mi (300 km2) |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Length | 27.0 mi (43.5 km) |
Monday Creek is a tributary of the Hocking River, 27 miles (43.5 km) long, in southeastern Ohio in the United States. Via the Hocking and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 116 square miles (300 km²) on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau. Monday Creek has been badly affected by acid mine drainage.
Monday Creek rises north of Shawnee in southern Perry County, and flows generally southwardly through northeastern Hocking County and northwestern Athens County, passing through the eastern part of Nelsonville to its confluence with the Hocking River about 2 miles (3 km) southeast of that city. Its largest tributaries are Little Monday Creek, 14.3 miles (23 km) long, which flows through Perry and Hocking Counties, and the Snow Fork, 10.7 miles (17.2 km) long, which rises in Perry County and flows through Hocking and Athens Counties, through the communities of Murray City and Buchtel.
As of 1994, land use in the Monday Creek watershed was occupied this way:
The Wayne National Forest owns 38% of land in the watershed; the largest private landowner is the Sunday Creek Mining Company.
The Adena, who lived in the region around 1000 BC, were the earliest known inhabitants of the Monday Creek area. Later native people of the region included the Lenape, Shawnee and Wyandot. According to legend, early European explorers of the region named the stream for the day on which it was discovered. The previous day the explorers had similarly named nearby Sunday Creek. The earliest white settlements in the area date to 1774; the Ohio Company purchased all the land in the watershed in two installments in 1787 and 1792.
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