Sunday Creek is a tributary of the Hocking River , 27.2 miles ( 43.8 km ) long , in southeastern Ohio in the United States . Via the Hocking and Ohio Rivers , it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River , draining 139 square miles ( 360 km ² ) in a mainly rural area of the Allegheny Plateau region . Its name is locally said to derive from early white settlers who in 1802 reached the creek on a Sunday , and so named it after the day of their discovery . ( also see nearby Monday Creek . ) Sunday Creek rises in southeastern Perry County and flows generally southwardly into northern Athens County , passing through the communities of Rendville , Corning , Glouster , Trimble , Jacksonville , and Millfield ( site of the 1930 Millfield Mine disaster ) , to Chauncey , where it flows into the Hocking River . In Athens County north of Glouster it collects the East Branch Sunday Creek , 15.5 miles ( 25 km ) long , which rises in Perry County and passes through Morgan County . Tom Jenkins Dam , constructed on the East Branch in Athens County in 1950 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , forms Burr Oak Lake , the site of Burr Oak State Park . In Glouster , Sunday Creek collects the West Branch Sunday Creek , 14 miles ( 22.5 km ) long , which rises in Perry County and flows generally southwardly
Millfield Mine disaster
Millfield Mine disaster
Sunday Creek (Ohio)