Wharton Creek (Unadilla River tributary)
tributary of the Unadilla River in Otsego County, New York, United States
Wharton Creek is a 36.1-mile-long (58.1 km) tributary of the Unadilla River in western Otsego County, in the state of New York. Via the Unadilla River, it is part of the Susquehanna River watershed, flowing to the Chesapeake Bay.
Wharton Creek rises in the town of Richfield and flows southwest through the towns of Plainfield, Exeter, Burlington, Edmeston, and Pittsfield, where it empties into the Unadilla River at the village of New Berlin.
Tributaries
Fly Brook converges with Wharton Creek south of Burlington Flats. Dundee Brook converges with Wharton Creek north-northeast of Burlington Flats.
The public source identifies “Wharton Creek (Unadilla River tributary)” as tributary of the Unadilla River in Otsego County, New York, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wharton, Creek and Unadilla.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wharton Creek (Unadilla River tributary)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.