Killbuck Creek is a tributary of the Walhonding River, 81.7 mi (131.5 km) long,Ohio Department of Natural Resources. A Guide to Ohio Streams. Chapter 10: Major Ohio Watersheds (pdf) in north-central Ohio in the United States. Via the Walhonding, Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. It drains an area of 613 mi² (1588 km²).
Killbuck Creek rises in northern Wayne County and initially flows in a counter-clockwise loop northward into southern Medina County and past the town of Burbank before turning to a southward course through Wayne, Holmes and Coshocton Counties to its mouth at the Walhonding River,*DeLorme (1991). Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 5 mi (8 km) west of the city of Coshocton. Along its course it flows to the west of the city of Wooster and passes the towns of Holmesville, Millersburg and Killbuck.
A USGS stream gauge on the creek at Layland recorded a mean annual discharge of during water years 1924-1930. According to a US Environmental Protection Agency estimate, the mean annual discharge of the creek at its mouth is .
Name Killbuck Creek and the town of Killbuck are named for the Lenape war chief Bemino (fl. 1710s–1780s) — known as John Killbuck, Sr, to the whites. According to the Geographic Names Information System, the stream has been known and spelled variously over the years: Kilbuck Creek Killbuck Run Killbucks Creek Kilbuck River Kill-Buck River
The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Killbuck Creek" as the stream's name in 1963.
See also List of rivers of Ohio
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