Cazenovia Creek

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Cazenovia Creek is a small river in Western New York, United States. The creek is named after Theophilus Cazenove, an agent of the Holland Land Company. Cazenovia Creek is a tributary of the Buffalo River, which empties into Lake Erie. The creek and its watershed are entirely within Erie County, New York.

Cazenovia Creek is formed from its two branches east of the Village of East Aurora and flows through the Towns of Aurora, Elma, West Seneca, and the City of Buffalo.

The East Branch of Cazenovia Creek flows through the Village of East Aurora and has its sources in the Southtowns of Erie County, primarily in the Towns of Colden, Wales, Holland, and Sardinia. The West Branch of Cazenovia Creek rises from sources in the Towns of Colden, Concord, and Sardina.

In 1897, Frederick Law Olmsted, a landscape architect, drew up plans for a park near the south city line of Buffalo, New York. A farm at that location was purchased in 1890, and Cazenovia Park, straddling Cazenovia Creek, was built at that location. The park is in the South Buffalo section of the city.

Cazenovia Creek is well known for it's annual ice jams in the early spring when temperatures rise.