Tonawanda Creek is a small tributary of the Niagara River in Western New York, United States.

[2] It flows on a meandering course for most of its length, first northerly until reaching the City of Batavia where a sweeping bend takes it westerly.

The creek has a small 30-foot-high (9.1 m) waterfall at Indian Falls[3] where the stream descends from the Onondaga Escarpment.

During the spring of each year, some sections of Tonawanda Creek flood to varying degrees.

The name Tonawanda (Te-ni-wun-da)[4] or (Ta-na-wan-deh')[5] derives from the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) language meaning swift water.