Drowning Creek, OK

Drowning Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States. The 2020 census counted 174 residents. Drowning Creek is located northwest of the center of Delaware County, at the eastern end of an arm of the Grand Lake o' the Cherokees, in the valley of Drowning Creek. Drowning Creek is 6 miles northwest of Jay, the county seat. The through line in Drowning Creek is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Drowning Creek makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today.