Okabena Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map , accessed May 26, 2011 waterway in southern Minnesota. It is a tributary, via the short Diversion Creek, of Heron Lake, the outlet of which flows to the Des Moines River. Okabena Creek begins in Worthington, Minnesota, connecting by a ditch to the outlet of Okabena Lake, then flows northeast past the towns of Brewster and Okabena to the Heron Lake/South Heron Lake system.

The name Okabena comes from Hoḳábena, a Dakota language term meaning "Heron hatching place". It is also the traditional Dakota name of nearby Heron Lake.

See also List of rivers of Minnesota

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