Nanticoke Creek is a watercourse in
Haldimand County, Ontario
Haldimand County is a rural city-status Census divisions of Ontario#Single-tier municipalities, single-tier municipality on the Niagara Peninsula in Southern Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of Lake Erie, and on the Grand River (Ontario), Gr ...
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[ It is approximately long, emptying into ]Lake Erie
Lake Erie ( ) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and also has the shortest avera ...
approximately 15 km west of the mouth of the Grand River. The creek drains approximately .[
The small village of ]Nanticoke, Ontario
Nanticoke is an unincorporated community and former city located on the western border of Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada. Nanticoke is located directly across Lake Erie from the US city of Erie, Pennsylvania.
Summary
Unlike the majority of H ...
, was founded at its mouth between 1830 and 1850.[ The Nanticoke were a dependent nation of the ]Iroquois Confederacy
The Iroquois ( ), also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the Endonym and exonym, endonym Haudenosaunee ( ; ) are an Iroquoian languages, Iroquoian-speaking Confederation#Ind ...
.
See also
*List of rivers of Ontario
This is the list of rivers which are in and flow through Ontario. The watershed list includes tributaries as well.
Dee River, flows between Three Mile Lake and Lake Rosseau.
List of rivers arranged by watershed Hudson Bay
Atlantic Ocean
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References
Rivers of Ontario
Geography of Haldimand County
Long Point Region Conservation Authority
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