Red Rock Creek rises in the middle of Garfield County in

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, and proceeds generally east through Garfield and

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counties on a 45-to-50 mile course taking it just past the Noble-

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county line to drain into the

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. Specifically, the creek originates northeast of

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and south of Hunter, Oklahoma, and continues east past the northern limit of

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before emptying into the Arkansas River just northeast of

Sooner Lake Sooner Lake is a reservoir in Pawnee and Noble counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It was built in 1972 to serve as a reservoir of cooling water for a coal-fired power generation plant owned by Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company (OG&E). The plan ...

. The creek and its tributaries were historically prone to flooding. The Lower Red Rock Creek Watershed, essentially located in the east half of Noble County to the Arkansas River and consisting of 116,582 acres of drainage area, had 5 major floods and 95 minor floods from 1935-1954. The Upper Red Rock Creek Watershed had 14 major floods and 129 smaller floods in the same period. Numbers of small dams and containment reservoirs have therefore been built; for instance, in the 197,376-acre Upper Red Rock Creek Watershed, 43 dams were constructed by 2006—25 in Garfield and 18 in Noble—with 13 additional dams planned. A few examples are: Lower Red Rock Creek Site 21 Reservoir (Noble Co., 14 acres) Upper Red Rock Creek Site 13 Reservoir (Noble Co., 10 acres) Upper Red Rock Creek Site 32 Reservoir (Garfield Co., 20 acres) Upper Red Rock Creek Site 46 Reservoir (Garfield Co., 30 acres)

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