Valley Creek

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

• 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-20/59 and Powder Plant Road
• Big Branch (tributary)
• Hall's Creek (tributary)
• former John Smith plantation
• Elyton
• crossing of Bessemer Super Highway
• Valley Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant
• Jonesboro
• Talley mounds
• Adger