Cobb Creek (Oklahoma)

Cobb Creek, also known as Pond Creek,^[1][2] is a watercourse in Washita and Caddo counties in Oklahoma.^[3] It originates in Washita County just south of the Custer-Washita county line (E1070 Rd), being south of Weatherford, Oklahoma.^[4][5] It flows generally south-southeast, feeding into the 157-acre Crowder Lake,^[6] also known as the Cobb Creek Watershed Dam No. 1.^[7] It continues below the lake, passing through Colony, Oklahoma, after which it turns more southeasterly and crosses into Caddo County.^[8] It joins Fort Cobb Lake from the west.^[9][10] Cobb Creek continues south-southeast below that lake,^[11] and ends when it becomes a tributary of the Washita River just southeast of Fort Cobb, Oklahoma.^[12]

Cobb Creek
Location
Country	United States
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Southeast of Clinton, Oklahoma
Mouth
• location	Southeast of Fort Cobb, Oklahoma
• coordinates	35°05′27″N 98°25′39″W

The creek is a perennial stream maintained by discharge from the Rush Springs Aquifer.^[13] Flooding frequently happened in the Cobb Creek watershed: from 1923 to 1942 there were 13 major floods and 67 smaller floods.^[14] Twelve dams have since been constructed throughout the watershed to control this problem.^[14]

Tributaries include:

• Bull Creek ^[15]
• Spring Creek ^[16]
• Buck Creek ^[17]
• Fivemile Creek ^[18]
• Crooked Creek ^[19]
• Camp Creek ^[20]
• Lake Creek (Fort Cobb Lake tributary from the north) ^[21]
• Willow Creek (Fort Cobb Lake tributary from the northeast) ^[22]
• Punjo Creek ^[23]