Turkey Creek (Oconee River tributary)

Turkey Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is a tributary to the Oconee River.Minter, GA, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1974 (1986 rev.) The stream headwaters arise just west of Jeffersonville at at an elevation of 480 feet.Jeffersonville, GA, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1974 (1985 rev.) The stream flows southeast to enter the Oconee at Turkey Creek Landing approximately six miles southeast of Dublin at and an elevation of 150 feet.

Turkey Creek's name is an accurate preservation of its native Creek-language name, Pennohatchee meaning "turkey stream". Former variant names were "Pennohatchee Creek" and "Pinahachi Creek".

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