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27-478: Butternut Creek can mean any of the following: Butternut Creek (Limestone Creek tributary) , stream in the greater Syracuse, New York area Butternut Creek (Unadilla River tributary) , downstream of Mount Upton, New York Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Butternut Creek . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

54-585: A large part of the Erie Canal and causing flash flooding in Butternut Creek. The aqueduct was repaired by plugging the breach with gravel. The creek is stocked annually with 7,600 brown trout and 600 brook trout from the Carpenter's Brook Fish Hatchery. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation maintains 8.1 miles (13.0 km) of the creek for public fishing. There is also

81-520: A local surface feature. In upstate New York and the Niagara peninsula of southern Ontario the sedimentary rocks tend to dip downward in a generally a South direction. The Onondaga outcrops in a line that usually forms an escarpment (the steep face of a cuesta ), because of its resistance to erosion. The outcrop can be traced from the Hudson River valley westward along the southern rim of

108-415: A marshy area at Apulia Station , near State Route 80 , as the confluence of a few seasonal streams that drain the nearby Truxton, Jones and Fellows Hills. It flows north through a glacial valley into Jamesville Reservoir . Below Jamesville Reservoir it is joined by Rush Creek, flows through the village of Jamesville , past Clark Reservation State Park , and then under Interstate 481 . The creek intersects

135-549: A population of wild brook trout. The 67.5-acre (27.3 ha) Butternut Creek Recreation Area, a municipal park of the Town of DeWitt , is located adjacent to the creek in the vicinity of I-481 and Kinne Road, and consists of a hiking/ biking trail along the creek as well as boardwalk trails in nearby marshes. The trail connects with the New York State Canalway Trail at Ryder Park and Recreation Area, on

162-496: A rock cut at Batavia which clearly shows the fault and is a popular point for geology class field trips. The fault , which runs from Attica, New York northward to Lake Ontario, is still active and periodically causes minor earthquakes in the area. The Onondaga Limestone also can be found in other areas where rocks of the same age outcrop, such as in western Pennsylvania and Michigan but they do not form prominent geographic features. A similar and more prominent outcrop known as

189-475: A span of 80 feet (24 m). Jamesville Reservoir was originally constructed in 1874 to provide water for the Erie Canal during dry seasons. The reservoir has 224 acres (91 ha) of water, a capacity of 4,000 acre⋅ft (4,900,000 m ), and is bordered by Jamesville Beach County Park , a popular local swimming area. During the 1970s, the Jamesville Dam was found to have cracked from age and

216-582: Is breached by geologically young streams and spectacular waterfalls are formed, such as at Chittenango Falls just east of Syracuse, Buttermilk Falls at Le Roy, New York and Indian Falls west of Batavia . A few other breaches occur in older valleys, which likely once had waterfalls, but erosion eventually obliterated them. Such breaches occur at the Tully valley, the Genesee River valley near Avon, New York , and at Port Colborne, Ontario , where

243-643: Is now lower Butternut Creek into a large river, eventually connecting to the Mohawk – Hudson River river system. After the ice fully melted, the water drained northward into the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River , leaving the now dry "Syracuse channels" – a series of large breaks between the Butternut and Onondaga valleys – and a 180 foot escarpment at Clark Reservation State Park, which

270-479: Is of reasonably high-quality and which was highly valued by First Nations peoples, is often a common variety of chert recovered archaeologically from sites relatively adjacent to outcrops; for example, Onondaga-variety chert comprises 95% of all of the flint material from some sites in Milton, Ontario . The material has also been found as well at some distance from its original source; Onondaga chert has been recovered at

297-671: The Amherstburg Formation of the Detroit River Group . Northwest of Ingersol and Woodstock, across the crest of the Algonquin Arch, the band of outcrop turns more northerly, and strikes north-northwest for about 140 km to the east shore of Lake Huron in the Kincardine area (as shown in the map on the right). These rocks continue northwestwards under Lake Huron, and reappear in the northern part of

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324-541: The Finger Lakes and forming Cascadilla, Ithaca and Buttermilk Falls in Ithaca . The Onondaga Escarpment contains significant outcrops of flint (a type of chert ) which bears the escarpment's name. This variety of chert was of great importance to First Nations peoples throughout Southern Ontario , who used it to make stone tools ( lithics ) such as projectile points and hide scrapers. This variety of chert, which

351-489: The Mohawk River valley, passing just south of Syracuse , and along the northern heads of the major Finger Lakes to Buffalo, New York . From Fort Erie, Ontario westward it runs along the north shore of Lake Erie for about 85 km and continues in a west-northwest direction inland for another ~90 km to about Ingersol and Woodstock, Ontario (as shown in the map on the right). To the west and north these rocks are known as

378-548: The Niagara Escarpment runs parallel and about 25 miles (40 kilometers) to the north through upstate New York, and similarly curves northwestward in southern Ontario toward Lake Huron and eventually into Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin's Door Peninsula . Another smaller outcrop known as the Portage Escarpment lies about 35 miles (56 km) to the south, running along the southern ends of

405-570: The Onondaga Creek during the 1720s. According to the Geographic Names Information System , known Native American names for the creek include Ka-soongk-ta, Kashunkta, Ki-ech-i-o-i-ah-te, and Oh-jees-twa-ya-na. In 1856, the first Butternut Creek Aqueduct was built to carry the Erie Canal across the creek. The original wooden structure has since been replaced by a three-span stone and concrete bridge, with

432-672: The Tioga-B Bentonite layer, which was formed in a very short time period as the result of a large volcanic eruption in what is now the state of Virginia. Relative age dating of the Onondaga places its formation in the Eifelian to Givetian stage of the Middle Devonian period, or 391.9 to 383.7 Ma . Radiometric dating of a sample from the bentonite at the top of the Onondaga placed it at 390 ± 0.5 Ma. The formation

459-565: The late archaic Duck Lake archaeological site in northern Michigan, circa 400 kilometers from the nearest outcropping of the material. This wide distribution implies either a very large seasonal migration of ancient peoples or long-distance trade routes, with both likely being the case at different times throughout the prehistory of the Great Lakes region. The Onondaga Limestone is composed of four main subunits. In descending order: The Seneca and Moorehouse members are sharply divided by

486-524: The old Erie Canal at the Cedar Bay near DeWitt where it is also joined by Meadow Brook. The creek then flows past the CSX DeWitt rail yards and Interstate 90 , turns east, and flows into Limestone Creek near Minoa . The Butternut Creek watershed encompasses approximately 75 square miles (190 km ). There are 77.6 miles (124.9 km) of mapped streams within the watershed. Water quality in

513-413: The old Erie Canal . There is a proposal to add a canoe launch and fishing dock on Butternut Creek. From the mouth upstream: Onondaga Formation The Onondaga Limestone is a group of hard limestones and dolomites of Devonian age that forms geographic features in some areas in which it outcrops ; in others, especially its Southern Ontario portion, the formation can be less prominent as

540-459: The Jamesville reach and above is considered good. However, the lower reaches of the creek are moderately affected by high nutrient levels from agriculture and urban runoff . The 100-year flood flow at Interstate 90 bridge is estimated at 4,306 cubic feet per second (121.9 m /s). The topography of the Butternut Creek watershed was sculpted by glaciers during the last ice age , During

567-481: The glacial maximum, about 20,000 years ago, the whole area was covered by a thick ice sheet. As the ice retreated about 12,000 years ago during the Pleistocene , Glacial Lake Newbury was formed to the west, in the present-day Syracuse area. The lake was initially dammed on its east end by the hills between the Butternut and Onondaga Creek valleys. As meltwater filled the lake, it overflowed this ridge, turning what

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594-420: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Butternut_Creek&oldid=1041826967 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Butternut Creek (Limestone Creek tributary) The creek begins in

621-531: The old valley forms a harbor on Lake Erie. The formation is broken by the only major fault line in western New York, the Linden Fault just east of Batavia, where the eastern side of the fault has dropped down and the ledge moved southward relative to the western side. On the western side of the fault in Genesee County the escarpment achieves its greatest prominence. The New York State Thruway has

648-403: The reservoir was temporarily drained while repairs were carried out. During the floods of 1974 the creek crested at a record 7.84 ft (2.39 m), causing flooding in portions of DeWitt. Several portions of the creek were channelized during the construction of Interstate 481 in the 1970s, to provide flood control and reduce erosion. In 2012 the Butternut Creek aqueduct breached, draining

675-614: The southern peninsula of Michigan, north of Alpina (as shown in the map on the right). To the west, its equivalent, the Detroit River Group, outcrops near Detroit and Windsor just north of the Lake Erie shoreline (as shown in the map on the right). The Detroit River Group is not topographically distinct west of Windsor in Michigan, but is noticeable as a steep hill just northwest of Leamington . In several spots it

702-479: The traditional lands of the Onondaga people . In 1681, Father Jean de Lamberville wrote that the main Onondaga village was situated along the east bank of the creek about a mile south of present day Jamesville, in the valley now flooded by Jamesville Reservoir. After clashes with French colonists in the early 1700s the Onondaga moved south into the hill country along upper Butternut Creek, before being forced west to

729-405: Was once a giant waterfall fed by glacier melt. Near Jamesville, the Butternut Creek valley has carved through the limestone Onondaga Escarpment, part of the 550-million-year-old Onondaga Formation , creating a steep and narrow gorge. The Jamesville Quarry is situated along the creek and has excavated about 2,238 acres (906 ha) of the area. The Butternut Creek valley was centrally located in

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