Sugar Creek

Sugar Creek or Sugarcreek may refer to:

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Sugar Creek (Driftwood River)

Sugar Creek is an 82.4-mile-long (132.6 km)tributary of the Driftwood River in east-central Indiana in the United States. Via the Driftwood, White, Wabash and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.

Sugar Creek was likely so named from the sugar trees growing along its banks.

Course

Sugar Creek rises in western Henry County and flows generally southwestwardly through Madison, Hancock, Shelby and Johnson counties, past the towns of Spring Lake and New Palestine. It joins the Big Blue River to form the Driftwood River in southeastern Johnson County, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Edinburgh.

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Coordinates: 39°20′47″N 85°59′35″W / 39.34644°N 85.99305°W / 39.34644; -85.99305

Sugar Creek (North Carolina)

Sugar Creek, also called Sugaw Creek, is a small tributary of the Catawba River in North and South Carolina in the United States. Its takes its name from a Native American (probably Catawba) word sugaw said to mean "collection of huts" (compare Catawba suk, "house"), which was anglicized Sugar in the name of the street which runs by the creek (Sugar Creek Road) and Sugaw in the name of Sugaw Creek Park and the Presbyterian church located by it.

During the Battle of Charlotte in the American Revolutionary War, as William Richardson Davie's forces withdrew from Charlotte on 26 September 1780, captain Joseph Graham was wounded at Sugaw Creek but survived and went on to fight again at the Battle of Cowan's Ford.

For a time, effluent from Charlotte's sewers and industries was dumped into the creek.

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