Haikey Creek and its tributaries drain about 40 square miles in
Tulsa County, Oklahoma, US, bounded generally by an irregular line along 61st and 71st Streets on the north, the
Arkansas River
The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. It generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The river's source basin lies in the western United Stat ...
on the south, Memorial Drive on the west and 145th East Avenue on the east. Within the area are Haikey Park, the Haikey Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, and Haikey Chapel.
History
Haikey is the name of a
Creek Indian
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy ( in the Muscogee language), are a group of related indigenous (Native American) peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands[Tulsa
Tulsa () is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with ...]
and
Broken Arrow today. The chapel, an Indian Methodist church, was built in 1913 with lumber hauled from
Sapulpa by Ben B. Haikey, patriarch of the family whose son C. Ben Haikey had founded the church a few years earlier in a brush arbor.
The church is located in Section 24, Township 18N, and Range 13E.
Levee
Construction of the
levee was completed in October 1985. The structure is an earthen levee 5,860 feet long with and 11.4 foot maximum height and a crown width of 10 feet. The levee has 1-on-3 slopes and an average height of 8.5 feet. The flood of record occurred on June 8, 1974.
References
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Rivers of Oklahoma
Rivers of Tulsa County, Oklahoma