Ochlockonee River
Georgia Rivers Ochlockonee River
One of Georgia’s 14 major watersheds. The Ochlockonee River originates in Worth County, Georgia, and flows 190 miles south and southwest through the Florida Panhandle, where it then empties into the Gulf of Mexico at Ochlockonee Bay.
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Description:
Download a 4-color poster of the Ochlockonee watershed in PDF format (10-11 MB files). Download posters for all of Georgia’s 14 major watersheds. These posters can be examined in detail using Adobe Acrobat, printed in small format on a desktop printer or downloaded to a local print shop and printed in full-size 24” X 36” format.
The Ochlockonee River System
The Ochlockonee River originates in Worth County, Georgia, at an elevation of 420 feet. It flows 190 miles south and southwest past Thomasville, Georgia, and Tallahassee, Florida, into Lake Talquin. From Lake Talquin, it flows in a westerly semicircle to enter the Gulf of Mexico at an easterly direction through Ochlockonee Bay. The watershed totals 2,677 square miles. Principle tributaries of the Ochlockonee are the Little Ochlockonee River, Tired Creek, Little River, Telogia Creek and Crooked River.
How the Ochlockonee Got Its Name
Ochlockonee is Hitchiti Indian for “yellow water” from the Hitchiti oki,
