Sugar Creek (Ohio)

The Sugar Creek below the Beach City Dam.

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The Sugar Creek is a 72 km long right tributary of the Tuscarawas River in the northeastern U.S. state of Ohio. It drains an area of 945 km ² and is part of the river system of the Mississippi River. The outflow is via the Tuscarawas River, Muskingum River, Ohio River and Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico.

The Sugar Creek rises six kilometers north of the town of Wooster in central Wayne County to 349 m altitude. It flows generally in a southeasterly direction through the counties Wayne, Stark and Tuscarawas and reaches the mouth into the Tuscarawas River at 270 m altitude on the southwestern outskirts of Dover. Among the most important tributaries of Sandy Creek include the Little Sugar Creek, the North Fork Sugar Creek, the Middle Fork Sugar Creek and the South Fork Sugar Creek. The catchment area of ​​Sugar Creek is about 49% of arable land, 28 % of forests and 18% of meadows and pastures, while the remaining 5% are urbanized or consisting of water bodies and wetlands.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers, built in 1936 southeast of City Beach just below the mouth of the South Fork to protect against flood the Beach City Dam, which impounds the 1.7 km ² Beach City Lake.

The Sugar Creek contributed information system, according to the Geographic Names in its history various names, including Margaret's Creek and Margaret's Creek.