Place name
Early
name of Native origin; in settler use by 1824
City of Atlanta
General area only

Utoy Creek

Utoy Creek flows west through southwest Atlanta to the Chattahoochee near Buzzard Roost. Its name is most likely Native in origin.

See it on the map All Early records

The record

Wikipedia, citing William Bright's Native American Placenames of the United States (2004) and Kenneth Krakow's Georgia Place-Names (1975), says the creek was most likely named for the Utoy Indians; this research could not check either book directly. The GHS Standing Peach Tree marker places the Creek town of Buzzard Roost at the creek's mouth. Settlers kept the name: Utoy Primitive Baptist Church was constituted in 1824, and a Utoy post office opened in 1836 on the road to Sandtown.

Today: The creek and its North and South forks run through southwest Atlanta neighborhoods and parks.