Oaks Creek is a river that drains Canadarago Lake, which is situated in the north central region of Otsego County, New York.

Then a short distance after the confluence of Phinney Creek it passes the Parslow Road Conservation Area and then reaches the Hamlet of Cattown.

In Cattown the creek splits and forms a small island that Cat Town Road passes over.

After the curve to the east it soon reaches the old dam and trolley bridge and then crosses under State Route 28 again in the Hamlet of Index.

[5]: 3 Then in March, 1798, David Marvin had completed a mill at the base of Christian Hill on the east bank of Oaks Creek, south of Oaksville.

The Marvins then sold to White and Osgood the privilege of ground in return for setting up a Fulling mill, a dye-house, and a shop.

[5]: 3 In 1797, George Johnson built a saw and grist mill in Cattown, which was on the earliest main road running west from Cooperstown.

William Fairchild and Josiah Stephens had built a grist mill near the new turnpike where it crossed Oaks Creek by 1812.

By 1819, Russell Williams, Lyman Foster, Shadrack Steel, and B. Carr were producing paper at the stone mill.

After the Civil War, rural mills lost economic ground to larger factories, which could take advantage of cheap labor and corporate investment.

It showed there is a gradual increase in streambed elevation between the dam and the confluence with Lidell and Phinney Creeks.

The study also found that a large amount of dredging would be required to create the proper slope necessary to benefit the drainage time of the lake.

[8]: 2–3 The United States Geological Survey (USGS) formally maintained a stream gauge along Oaks Creek.

[9] The USGS also did non-daily field measurements, at random intervals, of the creek by the Hamlet of Schuyler Lake between 1963 and 1974.

DEC rates the water quality of the stream as Class C, suitable for fishing and non-contact human recreation.