Oatka Creek
| Oatka Creek | |
| Allan's Creek | |
 Oatka Creek in Wheatland
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| Name origin: "Leaving the highlands" in Seneca | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | New York |
| Region | Western New York |
| Counties | Wyoming, Genesee, Monroe |
| Towns | Gainesville, Warsaw, Middlebury, Covington, Pavilion, Stafford, Le Roy, Wheatland |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Cotton Creek, Relyea Creek, Stony Creek |
| - right | Mud Creek |
| Cities | Warsaw, Le Roy, Scottsville |
| Source | |
| - location | Near Gainesville-Warsaw town line |
| - elevation | 1,380 ft (421 m) |
| - coordinates | 42°41′42″N 78°5′38″W / 42.69500°N 78.09389°W |
| Mouth | Genesee River |
| - location | 1 mi (1.6 km) east of Scottsville |
| - elevation | 500 ft (152 m) |
| - coordinates | 43°1′26″N 77°43′28″W / 43.02389°N 77.72444°WCoordinates: 43°1′26″N 77°43′28″W / 43.02389°N 77.72444°W |
| Length | 58 mi (93 km) |
| Basin | 215 sq mi (557 km2) |
| Discharge | for Garbutt |
| - average | 215.3 cu ft/s (6 m3/s) |
| - max | 7,050 cu ft/s (200 m3/s) (March 31, 1960) |
| - min | 0.9 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) (August 1, 1965) |
 Genesee River map showing Oatka on upper left
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 Map of the Oatka watershed
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Oatka Creek (/oʊˈætkə/ oh-AT-kə) is the third longest tributary of the Genesee River, located entirely in the Western New York region of the U.S. state of New York. From southern Wyoming County, it flows 58 miles (93 km) to the Genesee near Scottsville, draining an area of 215 square miles (560 km2) that includes all or part of 23 towns and villages in Wyoming, Genesee, Livingston and Monroe counties as well. Its name means "leaving the highlands" or "approaching an opening" in Seneca.
Like its parent stream it originated during the end of the last Ice Age, as glacial impact on the upper Allegheny Plateau created a rolling landscape streams could gradually erode through, The Oatka carved a deep groove known today as the Oatka Valley, where the upper creek's two major settlements would be established. Native Americans of the Seneca nation established a few settlements along it where clearings arose in the forest. The Revolutionary War's Sullivan Expedition, brought the valley's fertile soil to the attention of the emerging nation, and the region was opened for settlement shortly after the war.
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