Onondaga Creek

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox river

| name = Onondaga Creek

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| image = Onondaga-Creek-2016-0512p.jpg

| image_caption = Onondaga Creek (2016)

| map = Onondaga watershed one layer.svg

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| map_caption = Onondaga Creek watershed

| pushpin_map = USA New York

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| pushpin_map_caption= Location of the mouth in New York

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| subdivision_name1 = United States

| subdivision_type2 = State

| subdivision_name2 = New York

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| subdivision_type4 = County

| subdivision_name4 = Onondaga County, New York

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| length = {{convert|27.2|mi|km|abbr=on}}{{cite web|url=http://www.onondaganation.org/mediafiles/pdfs/onondaga_watershed.pdf|title=Onondaga Creek Fact Sheet|publisher=Onondaga Nation|date=|accessdate=2014-11-04}}

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| discharge1_location= Syracuse{{cite web|url=http://wdr.water.usgs.gov/wy2013/pdfs/04240010.2013.pdf|title=USGS Gage #04240010 on Onondaga Creek at Spencer Street, Syracuse, NY|publisher=U.S. Geological Survey|work=National Water Information System|date=1970–2013|accessdate=2014-11-04}}

| discharge1_min = {{convert|23|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}

| discharge1_avg = {{convert|183|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}{{cite web|url=http://wdr.water.usgs.gov/wy2013/pdfs/04240010.2013.pdf|title=USGS Gage #04240010 on Onondaga Creek at Spencer Street, Syracuse, NY|publisher=U.S. Geological Survey|work=National Water Information System|date=1970–2013|accessdate=2014-11-04}}

| discharge1_max = {{convert|2040|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}

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| source1_location = Vesper

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| mouth = Onondaga Lake

| mouth_location = Syracuse

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| basin_size = {{convert|111|sqmi|abbr=on}}

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Onondaga Creek is a major tributary of Onondaga Lake which is located in Onondaga County, New York. The headwaters of the creek originate {{convert|27|mi|km}} south of the city of Syracuse near the hamlet of Vesper, in the town of Tully, New York. The creek flows north through the Tully Valley and through the city of Syracuse where it empties into Onondaga Lake.{{cite web|url=http://www.ourlake.org/html/onondaga_creek1.html |title=System Description: Onondaga Creek |accessdate=November 6, 2011 |first= |last= |publisher=OurLake, 2009}}

The major tributaries of Onondaga Creek are the West Branch of Onondaga Creek, Hemlock Creek and Rattlesnake Gulf.{{cite web|url=http://www.oei2.org/Downloads/Onondoga%20Creek-%20Trolley%20Lot%20Design%20Report.pdf |title=Onondaga Creek Restoration Project Report: Trolley Lot Restoration Conceptual Design |accessdate=12 May 2016 |author=Currie, S., Firstenberg, M., Geartz, G., Jeffords, B., Kreider, T. & Nodine, D. |publisher=Onondaga Environmental Institute, 10 December 2009}}