Williams Creek (Florida)

Williams Creek is a creek in Navarre, Florida.[1][2] The creek is a tributary body of water to the Santa Rosa Sound. In recent time, the creek has been a subject of advocacy and controversy for the cleaning of local waterways and the preventing of sewage effluent from entering those same waterways.[3][4]

This article is about stream in Florida. For other uses, see Williams Creek (disambiguation).
Williams Creek
EtymologyWilliams Family
Location
CountryUnited States
StateFlorida
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationWetlands near Naval Outlying Landing Field Holley, Navarre, Florida
 • coordinates30.416570°N 86.897686°W / 30.416570; -86.897686
 • elevation25 ft (7.6 m)
Mouth 
 • location
Santa Rosa Sound, Navarre, Florida
 • coordinates
30.398507°N 86.890694°W / 30.398507; -86.890694
 • elevation
0 ft (0 m)

The creek is named after the Williams Family, who lived in near the creek in the early to mid 19th century.[5]

See also

References
  1. "GNIS Detail - Williams Creek". geonames.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  2. "Williams Creek Topo Map, Santa Rosa County FL (Holley Area)".
  3. "Save Santa Rosa Sound and Williams Creek". www.facebook.com.
  4. "County approves Williams Creek wastewater treatment facility - South Santa Rosa News". South Santa Rosa News. 2016-05-27. Retrieved 2018-07-01.
  5. Williams, John (1827). "Map of West Florida 1827 AD" (PDF). University of South Florida.


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