{{Short description|Tributary of the Walhonding River in north-central Ohio}} {{For|the watercourse in Illinois|Killbuck Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary)}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} thumb|right|288px|Map of the Walhonding watershed showing Killbuck Creek [[File:Pony Truss Bridge over Killbuck Creek near Creston.jpg|thumb|right|288px|A bridge over the creek near its headwaters west of Creston]] '''Killbuck Creek''' is a tributary of the Walhonding River,<ref name=Columbia>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bartleby.com/69/10/K04310.html |title=Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry |access-date=2006-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311205505/http://www.bartleby.com/69/10/K04310.html |archive-date=2007-03-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 81.7 mi (131.5 km) long,<ref name=DNR>Ohio Department of Natural Resources. [http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/streams/ ''A Guide to Ohio Streams.''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050904132000/http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/streams/ |date=2005-09-04 }} [http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/streams/chapter10.pdf Chapter 10: Major Ohio Watersheds (pdf)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221085738/http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/streams/chapter10.pdf |date=2007-02-21 }}</ref> in north-central Ohio in the United States. Via the Walhonding, Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. It drains an area of 613 mi² (1588 km²).<ref name=DNR/>
Killbuck Creek rises in northern Wayne County and initially flows in a counter-clockwise loop northward into southern Medina County and past the town of Burbank before turning to a southward course through Wayne, Holmes and Coshocton Counties to its mouth at the Walhonding River,<ref name="DeLorme OH">*DeLorme (1991). ''Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer''. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. {{ISBN|0-89933-233-1}}</ref> 5 mi (8 km) west of the city of Coshocton.<ref name=Columbia/> Along its course it flows to the west of the city of Wooster and passes the towns of Holmesville, Millersburg and Killbuck.<ref name="DeLorme OH"/>
A USGS stream gauge on the creek at Layland recorded a mean annual discharge of {{convert|502|cuft/s|m3/s}} during water years 1924-1930.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=USGS Surface Water data for Ohio: USGS 03139500 Killbuck Creek at Layland OH|url=https://waterdata.usgs.gov/oh/nwis/annual/?referred_module=sw&site_no=03139500&por_03139500_108845=706926,00060,108845,1924,1930&year_type=W&format=html_table|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200807000502/https://waterdata.usgs.gov/oh/nwis/annual/?referred_module=sw&site_no=03139500&por_03139500_108845=706926,00060,108845,1924,1930&year_type=W&format=html_table|archive-date=2020-08-07|access-date=2020-08-07|website=waterdata.usgs.gov}}</ref> According to a US Environmental Protection Agency estimate, the mean annual discharge of the creek at its mouth is {{convert|625.34|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{Cite web|last=United States Environmental Protection Agency|author-link=United States Environmental Protection Agency|date=|title=Watershed Report: Killbuck Creek|url=https://watersgeo.epa.gov/watershedreport/?comid=15400334|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807003809/https://watersgeo.epa.gov/watershedreport/?comid=15400334|archive-date=2020-08-07|access-date=2020-08-07|website=}}</ref>
==Name== Killbuck Creek and the town of Killbuck are named for the Lenape war chief Bemino (''fl.'' 1710s–1780s) — known as John Killbuck, Sr, to the whites.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n174 175]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Hunt|first=William Ellis|title=Historical Collections of Coshocton County, Ohio: A Complete Panorama of the County, from the Time of the Earliest Known Occupants of the Territory Unto the Present Time, 1764-1876|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8uguAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA14|year=1876|publisher=R. Clarke & Company|page=14}}</ref> According to the Geographic Names Information System, the stream has been known and spelled variously over the years:<ref>{{Gnis|1066785}}</ref> *Kilbuck Creek *Killbuck Run *Killbucks Creek *Kilbuck River *Kill-Buck River
The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Killbuck Creek" as the stream's name in 1963.
==See also== *List of rivers of Ohio
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Category:Rivers of Ohio Category:Rivers of Coshocton County, Ohio Category:Rivers of Holmes County, Ohio Category:Rivers of Medina County, Ohio Category:Rivers of Wayne County, Ohio