Flint Creek is a creek in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State, located between Canandaigua and Seneca Lake. Flint Creek is part of the Canandaigua Lake

Canandaigua Lake

Canandaigua Lake is the fourth largest of the Finger Lakes, in the U.S. state of New York. The city of Canandaigua is located at the northern shore of the lake and the village of Naples is just a few miles south of the southern end...

 watershed which is part of the Oswego River

Oswego River (New York)

The Oswego River is a river in upstate New York in the United States. This river is the second-largest river flowing into Lake Ontario. James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is set in the Oswego River valley...

 drainage basin, which drains in Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario

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. Flint Creek flows through the hamlets of Potter, Gorham

Gorham (hamlet), New York

Gorham is a hamlet within in the Town of Gorham, in Ontario County, New York. It is located along New York State Route 245. Gorham is situated around Flint Creek. Gorham is a significantly large hamlet with several businesses, including public library and a post office with a zip code of 14461...

, and Seneca Castle, and ends in the village of Phelps, New York

Phelps, New York

Phelps, New York may refer to either:*Phelps , New York, located in Ontario County*Phelps , New York, located within the Town of Phelps...

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A part of Flint Creek known as Phelps Run is used for whitewater rafting and kayaking and has class II, III, and IV rapids. The run is only three miles and has an average gradient of 50 feet per mile.

History

The Hamlet of Gorham was built in the early 1800's around Flint Creek, with several mills using the creek for power.

A very large area of muckland used for vegetable crop farming was created by clearing and draining a swamp along Flint Creek located in the Town of Potter, New York

Potter, New York

Potter is a town in Yates County, New York, in the United States. The Town of Potter is located in the northwest part of the county and is south of Canandaigua, NY. The population was 1,830 at the 2000 census.- History :...

. Flint Creek flows through the middle of the area and is used for irrigation. The largest portion of this muckland is run by Torrey Farms

Torrey Farms

Torrey Farms is the name of a large, 11-generation family farm located in Elba , New York, with another farm located in Potter, New York. It is one of the largest vegetable-crop farms in New York. The land itself, which is over 10,000 acres, is primarily muckland, which is drained swampland...

 of Elba, New York

Elba, New York

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