Nanticoke Creek is a watercourse in Haldimand County, Ontario. [1] It is approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) long, emptying into Lake Erie approximately 15 km west of the mouth of the Grand River. The creek drains approximately 180 square kilometres (69 sq mi). [2]
The small village of Nanticoke, Ontario, was founded at its mouth between 1830 and 1850. [3] The Nanticoke were a dependent nation of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Nanticoke Creek, which drains about 180 square kilometres, begins as a cool water fishery in the Norfolk Sand Plain with groundwater-fed base flows. From there it enters a series of lakes, ponds, and wetlands called the Waterford Ponds. It changes to a warm water fishery after it passes into the Haldimand Clay Plain past Waterford. It enters Lake Erie at Nanticoke.