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It's a Fulton County performance tradition to mirthfully disparage Bad Creek. Ask the locals how Bad Creek got its name and they'll spin you a witty yarn about how what an awful creek it is.

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In Swan Creek Township near Delta, Ohio, on November 2nd, 2024, was Bad Creek as viewed from a bridge on the south side of Township Road EF.

Bad Creek flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Maumee Bay in Lake Erie.

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Nah I am just kidding, it had been kinda sloppy-lookin since long before November 2nd.

Don't many of us humans find the Tiffin River's soft mudbars uninviting?

According to this report from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, "the Tiffin River mainstem [was historically] subject to significant channel and riparian area modification. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the mainstem and many of the tributaries were systematically modified. Channel modifications may have included removal of natural meanders, relocation of the active channel, dredging activities, and removal of riparian vegetation."

Based on satellite imagery, I suspect that this segment of the river was relocated to bypass a meander.

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In German Township in Fulton County, Ohio, on November 2nd, 2024, was the Tiffin River as viewed from the north side of a bridge on the Wabash Cannonball Trail, concurrently a segment of the North Country National Scenic Trail, between U.S. Route 20A and Ohio State Route 66.

The Tiffin River flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie, and so on over Niagara Falls &c &c. It was named in honor of Governor Edward Tiffin.

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I am not yet convinced it is pretty. Also I think "Auglaize" should be pronounced "oh-GLAY-zee" instead of "AW-glaze," which sounds awful to my ears, and which clumsily interrupts the rhythm and flow of any phrase or sentence in which it occurs.

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In Defiance, Ohio, on October 15th, 2022, the Auglaize River as viewed in Bronson Park. Unincorporated Defiance Township is on the opposite riverbank.

The Auglaize River flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Maumee Bay in Lake Erie.

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What a weirdo! Hey there, weirdo.

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In Paulding, Ohio, on October 15th, 2022, Flatrock Creek as viewed from the south side of East Perry Street (U.S. Route 127).

Flatrock Creek flows to the Auglaize River, which flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Maumee Bay in Lake Erie.

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Ai!

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In Oak Openings Preserve Metropark in Swanton Township in Lucas County, Ohio, on April 24th, 2020, Ai Creek as viewed from the Oak Openings Hiking Trail.

Ai Creek flows to Swan Creek, which flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie &c &c.

According to the map in the 1980 soil survey of Lucas County, soils here are predominantly alluvial loam, Mollisols (Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls) of the Sloan series, occasionally flooded.

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In Oak Openings Preserve Metropark in Swanton Township in Lucas County, Ohio, on April 24th, 2020, Swan Creek as viewed from an overlapping section of the Oak Openings Hiking Trail and the Beach Ridge Bike Trail.

Swan Creek flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie &c &c.

According to the map in the 1980 soil survey of Lucas County, soils here are predominantly alluvial loam, Mollisols (Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls) of the Sloan series, occasionally flooded.

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Ai!

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In Oak Openings Preserve Metropark in Swanton Township in Lucas County, Ohio, on April 24th, 2020, Ai Creek as viewed from the Oak Openings Hiking Trail.

Ai Creek flows to Swan Creek, which flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie &c &c.

According to the map in the 1980 soil survey of Lucas County, soils here are predominantly alluvial loam, Mollisols (Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls) of the Sloan series, occasionally flooded.

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In Oak Openings Preserve Metropark in Swanton Township in Lucas County, Ohio, on April 24th, 2020, a drainpipe carrying an unnamed tributary of Swan Creek through an embankment, as viewed from the Oak Openings Hiking Trail.

Swan Creek flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie &c &c.

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DON'T WE!

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In Oak Openings Preserve Metropark in Swanton Township in Lucas County, Ohio, on April 24th, 2020, the floodplain of Ai Creek as viewed from the Oak Openings Hiking Trail.

Ai Creek flows to Swan Creek, which flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie &c &c.

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Swan Creek here exhibits my preferred characteristics of creeks in Ohio. Too often I approach a creek in Ohio only to find that it is wildly different in appearance from this one, Swan Creek.

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In Oak Openings Preserve Metropark in Swanton Township in Lucas County, Ohio, on April 24th, 2020, Swan Creek as viewed from an overlapping section of the Oak Openings Hiking Trail and the Beach Ridge Bike Trail.

Swan Creek flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie &c &c.

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Ai!

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In Oak Openings Preserve Metropark in Swanton Township in Lucas County, Ohio, on April 24th, 2020, Ai Creek as viewed from the Oak Openings Hiking Trail.

Ai Creek flows to Swan Creek, which flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie &c &c.

According to the map in the 1980 soil survey of Lucas County, soils here are predominantly alluvial loam, Mollisols (Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls) of the Sloan series, occasionally flooded.

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Unfortunately we are not allowed to eat the beautiful leaves raw in salads, because they would cause our poor oral mucosa to burn and swell.

"Ouch, those leaves are full of calcium oxalate crystals!" we might be unable to exclaim, on account of our mouths and throats being all swollen up from the skunk cabbage leaves we ate. Can you imagine!

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In Oak Openings Preserve Metropark in Swanton Township in Lucas County, Ohio, on April 24th, 2020, an intermittent stream that flows to an unnamed tributary of Swan Creek, as viewed from the Wabash Cannonball Trail on a section of the North County National Scenic Trail.

Swan Creek flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie &c &c.

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In Oak Openings Preserve Metropark in Swanton Township in Lucas County, Ohio, on April 24th, 2020, Swan Creek as viewed from an overlapping section of the Oak Openings Hiking Trail and the Beach Ridge Bike Trail.

Swan Creek flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie &c &c.

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Out here movin' that dirty Michigan water toward Lake Erie!

Ah the Norfolk Southern Railway, I see it. I still remember when it was the Wabash Railroad.

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In Medina Township in Lenawee County, Michigan, on September 20th, 2014, Lime Creek as viewed from the south side of West Ridgeville Road, east of Ranger Highway.

Lime Creek flows to Bean Creek, which flows to the Tiffin River, which flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie &c.

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The river was named in honor of the famous legend of "Virgin Mary." Indiana people come to the river to stare dumbly at its muddy water as they recall personally meaningful versions of her apocryphal story.

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In Decatur, Indiana, on July 27th, 2019, the St. Marys River as viewed from the north side of East Monroe Street (U.S. Route 224). Yon bridge is on East Jackson Street and was built in 1965.

The St. Marys River flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie.

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Here was one of the most likeably attractive weirs in the entire western half of the Lake Erie drainage basin. See and hear these riverwaters move, over and through the obstruction of rocks.

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In downtown Findlay, Ohio, on April 29th, 2018, the Blanchard River as viewed from the "Findlay Downtown Riverwalk" east of South Cory Street.

The Blanchard River flows to the Auglaize River, which flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie.

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• Lake Erie basin (Q6475771)
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Maumee River Watershed (Ind. and Ohio) (sh93004468)
• Rivers—Ohio (sh85114372)

The creekbank is super-steep because it was machine-made during a creek-straightening project undertaken by long-dead Indianans. We are all clapping our hands for the trees, in hopes that their muscular roots might slowly succeed in undoing the Indianans' misguided effort.

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In Perry Township in Allen County, Indiana, on January 28th, 2018, in the Bicentennial Woods nature preserve owned by ACRES Land Trust, along Willow Creek.

Willow Creek flows to Cedar Creek, which flows to the St. Joseph River, which flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Allen (county) (1002143)
• Willow Creek (1135074)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• nature reserves (300008178)
• riverbanks (300008729)
• stream channelization (Q42296746)
• temperate deciduous forests (300387649)
• winter (300133101)
• woods (plant communities) (300132451)

Wikidata items:
• 28 January 2018 (Q45919685)
• ACRES Land Trust (Q47519552)
• Bicentennial Woods (Q47658110)
• Fort Wayne metropolitan area (Q368276)
• January 28 (Q2285)
• January 2018 (Q23994856)
• Lake Erie basin (Q6475771)
• Perry Township (Q7169916)
• riparian forest (Q11177275)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Maumee River Watershed (Ind. and Ohio) (sh93004468)
• Rivers—Indiana (sh85114313)
• Saint Joseph River Watershed (Mich.-Ind.) (sh2007005444)

Black Creek hurries its bad load of Indiana's worst agroindustrial poisons toward Lake Erie, via its machine-carved late 19c-early 20c bad steep-bankèd channel. Ugh!

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In Butler Township in DeKalb County, Indiana, on January 28th, 2018, Black Creek in the Heinzerling Family Five Points Nature Preserve owned by ACRES Land Trust.

Black Creek flows to Little Cedar Creek, which flows to Cedar Creek, which flows to the St. Joseph River, which flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• DeKalb (county) (1002320)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• nature reserves (300008178)
• rivers (300008707)
• winter (300133101)

Wikidata items:
• 28 January 2018 (Q45919685)
• ACRES Land Trust (Q47519552)
• Butler Township (Q5002656)
• Heinzerling Family Five Points Nature Preserve (Q47519573)
• January 28 (Q2285)
• January 2018 (Q23994856)
• Lake Erie basin (Q6475771)
• stream channelization (Q42296746)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Maumee River Watershed (Ind. and Ohio) (sh93004468)
• Rivers—Indiana (sh85114313)
• Saint Joseph River Watershed (Mich.-Ind.) (sh2007005444)

Geographic Names Information System features:
• Black Creek (450516)

I am a huge secularist but nevertheless I find the St. Joseph River (seen here!) attractive.

"In 1889, Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical Quamquam pluries in which he urged Catholics to pray to Joseph as patron of the Church... He prescribed that every October, a prayer to Saint Joseph be added to the Rosary, with attached indulgences," ugh, this is nonsense, I'm a secularist looking at a river.

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In Springfield Township in Allen County, Indiana, on January 28th, 2018, the St. Joseph River as viewed from the McNabb-Walter Nature Preserve owned by ACRES Land Trust.

The St. Joseph River flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Allen (county) (1002143)
• Saint Joseph River (2637425)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• nature reserves (300008178)
• rivers (300008707)
• winter (300133101)

Wikidata items:
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• ACRES Land Trust (Q47519552)
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• January 2018 (Q23994856)
• Lake Erie basin (Q6475771)
• McNabb-Walter Nature Preserve (Q47524532)
• Spencer Township (Q5791734)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Maumee River Watershed (Ind. and Ohio) (sh93004468)
• Rivers—Indiana (sh85114313)

Unfortunately this being Indiana I figure any kind of renaming drive would probably end up getting dominated by rightwing reactionary politics, so I am just gonna stay quiet about it.

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In Jackson Township south of Auburn, Indiana, on January 28th, 2018, Cedar Creek in the James P. Covell Nature Preserve owned by ACRES Land Trust.

Cedar Creek flows to the St. Joseph River, which flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Cedar Creek (1132745)
• DeKalb (county) (1002320)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• morning (300343630)
• nature reserves (300008178)
• reflections (perceived properties) (300056034)
• rivers (300008707)
• winter (300133101)

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• ACRES Land Trust (Q47519552)
• Jackson Township (Q6117498)
• James P. Covell Nature Preserve (Q47537291)
• January 28 (Q2285)
• January 2018 (Q23994856)
• Lake Erie basin (Q6475771)

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Maumee River Watershed (Ind. and Ohio) (sh93004468)
• Rivers—Indiana (sh85114313)
• Saint Joseph River Watershed (Mich.-Ind.) (sh2007005444)