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'''Valley Creek''' is a stream draining the western portion of [[Jones Valley]].
'''Valley Creek''' is a 46-mile-long stream draining 257 square miles of western [[Jones Valley]].


It originates from [[Green Springs]] and [[George Ward Park]] and flows westward toward [[Bessemer]], then bends northward, emptying into the [[Black Warrior River]] near [[Camp Oliver]], below the confluence of [[Locust Fork]] and [[Mulberry Fork]].
It originates from [[Green Springs]] and [[George Ward Park]] and flows westward toward [[Bessemer]], then bends northward, emptying the [[Black Warrior River]] near [[Camp Oliver]], below the confluence of [[Locust Fork]] and [[Mulberry Fork]].
 
West of [[Center Street]] in [[Birmingham]] the creek divides streets named "west" from those called "southwest".
 
Birmingham's first sewer system, a 15-mile network of brick tunnels constructed in the 1880s, flowed out into Valley Creek about two miles south of the city limits.
 
==Points along Valley Creek==
* [[Alabama State Fairgrounds]]
* [[Cooper Green Housing Community]]
* [[Nabors Branch]] (tributary)
* [[West Side Golf Course]]
* [[Midfield High School]]
* [[Hawkins Spring]]/[[Midfield Park]]
* [[Valhalla Cemetery]]
* [[Mud Creek]] (tributary)
* [[Blue Creek]] (tributary)
* [[Five Mile Creek]] (tributary)
* [[Opossum Creek]] (tributary)
* proposed [[Northern Beltline]] crossing between [[I-20]]/[[I-59|59]] and [[Powder Plant Road]]
* [[Big Branch]] (tributary)
* [[Hall's Creek]] (tributary)
* former [[John Smith plantation]]
* [[Elyton]]
* [[Valley Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant]]
* crossing of [[Bessemer Super Highway]]
* [[Jonesboro]]
* [[Talley mounds]]
* [[Adger]]

Revision as of 14:30, 21 August 2014

Valley Creek is a 46-mile-long stream draining 257 square miles of western Jones Valley.

It originates from Green Springs and George Ward Park and flows westward toward Bessemer, then bends northward, emptying the Black Warrior River near Camp Oliver, below the confluence of Locust Fork and Mulberry Fork.

West of Center Street in Birmingham the creek divides streets named "west" from those called "southwest".

Birmingham's first sewer system, a 15-mile network of brick tunnels constructed in the 1880s, flowed out into Valley Creek about two miles south of the city limits.

Points along Valley Creek

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