Watershed
Tinker's Creek is the largest tributary of the Cuyahoga River, the river which flows through Cleveland and into Lake Erie. Because of its glacial history, the course of the Cuyahoga River is unusual: it rises in Geauga County, Ohio, flows southward into the city of Akron, Ohio, and then abruptly turns northward and flows into Lake Erie. Its course is shaped like a reversed "J," and Tinker's Creek, entering from the east, drains almost all of the land nestled in the hook of the "J" that does not drain directly into the Cuyahoga.
The creek itself rises near Tinker's Creek State Park in Streetsboro, Portage County. The creek then flows through Twinsburg Township and Twinsburg in Summit County, and Glenwillow, Oakwood, Bedford Heights, Bedford, and Walton Hills in Cuyahoga County before its confluence with the Cuyahoga River in Valley View village near Independence.
The 24 municipalities within the watershed are:
Cuyahoga County
- Beachwood
- Bedford
- Bedford Heights
- Glenwillow
- Highland Heights
- Maple Heights
- North Randall
- Oakwood
- Orange
- Solon
- Valley View
- Walton Hills
- Warrensville Heights
Geauga County
- Bainbridge Township
Portage County
- Aurora
- Franklin Township
- Streetsboro
- Sugar Bush Knolls
Summit County
- Hudson Village
- Macedonia
- Northfield
- Reminderville
- Twinsburg
- Twinsburg Township
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