Ritner Creek

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

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| name = Ritner Creek

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| name_etymology = For Sebastian Ritner, a settler whose donation land claim was along the creek{{cite book | last = McArthur | first = Lewis A. |author2=McArthur, Lewis L. | title = Oregon Geographic Names|edition=7th | publisher = Oregon Historical Society Press | year = 2003 |origyear=1928| location = Portland, Oregon | page = 813| isbn = 0-87595-277-1}}

| image = Interior of Ritner Creek Bridge.jpg

| image_caption = Ritner Creek Bridge interior in 2011

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| pushpin_map = USA Oregon

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| pushpin_map_caption= Location of the mouth of Ritner Creek in Oregon

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| subdivision_name1 = United States

| subdivision_type2 = State

| subdivision_name2 = Oregon

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| subdivision_type4 = County

| subdivision_name4 = Polk

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| source1 = Central Oregon Coast Range

| source1_location = near Bald Mountain

| source1_coordinates= {{coord|44|46|27|N|123|32|29|W|display=inline}}

| source1_elevation = {{convert|1292|ft|abbr=on}}Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using GNIS source coordinates.

| mouth = Luckiamute River

| mouth_location = south of Pedee

| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|44|43|43|N|123|26|36|W|display=inline,title}}{{cite web | work = Geographic Names Information System| publisher = United States Geological Survey | date = November 28, 1980 | url ={{Gnis3|1163226}}| title = Ritner Creek | accessdate =February 29, 2016}}

| mouth_elevation = {{convert|279|ft|abbr=on}}

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Ritner Creek is a tributary of the Luckiamute River in Polk County in the U.S. state of Oregon.{{cite web|title=United States Topographic Map|publisher=United States Geological Survey|via=Acme Mapper|url=http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=44.728611,-123.443333&z=12&t=T&marker0=44.728611,-123.443333|accessdate=February 29, 2016}}. The map includes mile markers along the Luckiamute River. The creek begins near Bald Mountain in the Central Oregon Coast Range and flows generally southeast to meet the Luckiamute southwest of Pedee and north of Kings Valley. The confluence is {{convert|31|mi|km}} upstream of the Luckiamute's mouth on the Willamette River. Named tributaries of Ritner Creek from source to mouth are Sheythe, Love, Clayton, and Kinsey creeks.

Ritner Creek passes under Oregon Route 223 just before entering the river. The Ritner Creek Bridge, a {{convert|75|ft|m|adj=on}} covered bridge, carried the highway over the creek until 1976. Replaced by a concrete span, it was the last covered bridge on an Oregon state highway.{{cite web|title=Ritner Creek Covered Bridge|publisher=Oregon Department of Transportation|format=PDF|url=http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/BRIDGE/docs/covbrdg/Descriptions/Ritner.pdf|accessdate=February 29, 2016}}