Owl Creek may refer to:
- Owl Creek, North Carolina
- Owl Creek Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming
- Owl Creek, Wyoming
- Owl Creek, a firing range at Fort Hood, Texas
- Owl Creek Quickstep, a song written by American songwriter Dan Emmett
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, a short story by Ambrose Bierce (also adapted into a film of the same name)
Famous quotes containing the words owl and/or creek:
“After sitting in my chamber many days, reading the poets, I have been out early on a foggy morning and heard the cry of an owl in a neighboring wood as from a nature behind the common, unexplored by science or by literature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)