Raven Creek begins in southern Sugarloaf Township near the community of Five Points on Saint Gabriel Hill.

Further downstream, it turns south for a few miles, crossing Pennsylvania Route 239.

[7] Raven Creek is described as "quite a stream" in John Gosse Freeze's 1888 book A History of Columbia County, Pennsylvania: From the Earliest Times.

[9] On July 30, 1864, a group of several army veterans (including a Lieutenant Robinson) and two civilians named Isiah Harrison and Eli Buckalew rode on horseback from Fairmount Springs, in Luzerne County, into Columbia County to search for deserters.

During this search, the searchers, who were later dubbed the "Lincoln Midnight Riders", rode parallel to Raven Creek for some time.

Lieutenant Robinson was shot later in the search, triggering claims of an alleged military uprising called the Fishing Creek Confederacy.

[10] A member of the Patterson family constructed a gristmill at the mouth of Raven Creek in Stillwater in 1865.