Sunday Creek
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Sunday Creek is a stream in Athens County, Ohio, and partly in Morgan County, that is a tributary to the Hocking River. The name derives, as the story goes, from early surveyors who reached the creek on a Sunday, and so named it after the day of discovery.
Sunday Creek has a southwardly-trending flow. It passes through Glouster, Ohio, Trimble, Ohio, Jacksonville, Ohio, and Millfield, Ohio, and has its confluence with the Hocking River near Chauncey, Ohio.
The entire watershed of Sunday Creek is, historically, in important coal-mining area, concentrating on number 8 coal, the Middle Kittaning coal seam. For this reason, the stream suffers from serious acid mine drainage.
The Millfield mining disaster, one of the major mining catastrophes in American history, happened close to Sunday Creek.
Just to the west of Sunday creek is another creek names after its day of discovery, Monday Creek.