Nowadaga Creek

Nowadaga Creek
Location of the mouth of Nowadaga Creek Nowadaga Creek (the United States)
Location
Country	United States
State	New York
Region	Central New York Region
Physical characteristics
Source	Ohisa Creek
• location	Newville, New York
• elevation	558 ft (170 m)
Mouth	Mohawk River
• location	Indian Castle, New York
• coordinates	43°00′35″N 74°46′27″W
• elevation	324 ft (99 m)
Basin size	31.4 sq mi (81 km2)

The Nowadaga Creek basin drains portions of the towns of Danube, Stark, and Little Falls, as well as a small portion of the town of Warren, in southern Herkimer County before converging with the Mohawk River in Indian Castle, New York. The drainage basin is approximately 49 percent forested. The creek has an average slope of 1.7 percent over its entire stream length of 10.0 miles. On a 1790 land patent map it is spelled "Inchanando Creek".

Geology

Nowadaga Creek flows over a bedrock bed for much of its length and, therefore, is not subject to alluvial processes as seen in many similarly sized river basins. Despite its natural and relatively undeveloped setting, for much of its length the creek lacks a well- developed natural floodplain. In many areas along the creek, the bedrock channel is disintegrating, and pieces of stone that originate from the channel bed are conveyed downstream and deposited in lower velocity reaches of the channel, contributing to debris jams, avulsions, and flooding.