Buck Creek (Kiamichi River tributary)

Buck Creek (Choctaw: Lapitta Bok) is a 38.9-mile-long (62.6 km)[1][failed verification] stream in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.

Buck Creek played a role during the Civil War as a camp, 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Fort Smith, for Confederate forces under General Douglas H. Cooper during an incident known as "Marston's Skirmish.

[3] During the years following the 1880s, when the region was opened to development by the arrival of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway—whose track crossed Buck Creek at its mouth on the Kiamichi River—its valley provided a route into the mountains and was used by loggers.

Until construction of Oklahoma State Highway 2, which bridged the stream, Buck Creek was a serious impediment to overland transportation in the Kiamichi River valley.

The Oklahoma Water Resources Board has in past contemplated building a flood-control dam on Buck Creek, but those plans no longer appear under active consideration, particularly since construction of dams impounding Jack’s Fork Creek for Sardis Lake and the lower Kiamichi River (Hugo Lake).