Dry Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States.

[4] Dry Creek is located in southeastern Cherokee County southeast of the head of Tenkiller Ferry Lake on the Illinois River.

The CDP is bordered on the north and east by Dry Creek, an inlet to the lake; on the west by Oklahoma State Highway 82; and on the southwest by Elk Creek.

24.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

About 14.7% of families and 22.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 48.8% of those under the age of eighteen and 8.9% of those 65 or over.