From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Irondequoit Creek

Field	Value
name	Irondequoit Creek
image	Irondequoit Creek in Ellison Park.jpg
image_caption	Irondequoit Creek in the town of Penfield, New York.
map	Irondequoit Creek Watershed.png
map_caption	Map of the Irondequoit Creek watershed
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	United States
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	New York
subdivision_type4	County
source1_location	Ontario County, New York
source1_coordinates
mouth	Irondequoit Bay
mouth_location	Monroe County, New York
mouth_coordinates
tributaries_left	Allen Creek
tributaries_right	Trout Creek, Thomas Creek

Irondequoit Creek is a stream in eastern Monroe County, New York that feeds Irondequoit Bay. It begins in rural West Bloomfield in Ontario County, flowing north into the town of Mendon in Monroe County. Accumulating a few small tributaries, it twists eastward back into the Ontario County town of Victor, then back north into Monroe County, where it flows through the towns of Perinton and Penfield on its way to the bay. It also skirts the edge of the combined town and village of East Rochester.

The creek is believed to lie in a valley carved out by a pre-glacial Genesee River, which at the time would have flowed into Lake Ontario where Irondequoit Bay does today. Glacial debris caused the river to be rerouted as the glaciers retreated, leaving only the comparatively small creek (Rogers 1893).

The first settlements in the town of Penfield sprang up along the creek, as its waters were well suited to mills. The Daisy Flour Mill, previously a restaurant, was the last of over a dozen mills that once used the creek's waters.

The creek's valley caused a problem for the engineers of the original Erie Canal, who ultimately had to build the Great Embankment aqueduct to bridge the valley near Bushnell's Basin (Fairchild 1896:134, Farley 2010, Schoff:505).

The creek is stocked annually with fish by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for year-round fishing.

References

{{Citation
{{Citation
{{Citation
{{Citation

Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

rivers-of-new-york-(state) rivers-of-monroe-county,-new-york rivers-of-ontario-county,-new-york

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Irondequoit Creek — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report