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Within the city limits of Gainesville, you can find many vital and beautiful fresh water creeks, ponds and springs. To find out more information on a particular creek, select one from the following menu:

Visit our interactive creeks map!
Find your watershed address!

To view aerial photographs of these creeks and their corresponding watersheds, visit the Alachua County Environmental Protection Department website.

To read more about specific issues affecting local creeks, read about our "impaired creeks" in our TMDL page or log into the Gainesville Sun to view the "Crippled Creeks" collection of articles.

Click here to read "Love Your Creeks!" by Gainesville's Clean Water Partnership Coordinator Sally Adkins.

The many creeks of Gainesville, Florida;
Click here for an intereacitve map!