title: Cottonwood Creek (Verdigre Creek tributary)
text: # Cottonwood Creek (Verdigre Creek tributary)
  
  Cottonwood Creek is a 7.37 mi (11.86 km) long second-order tributary to Verdigre Creek in Knox County, Nebraska.
  
  ## Course
  
  Cottonwood Creek rises on the East Branch Verdigre Creek divide about 3 miles northeast of Royal, Nebraska and then flows generally north-northwest to join Verdigre Creek about 5 miles east of Venus, Nebraska.
  
  ## Watershed
  
  Cottonwood Creek drains 10.23 square miles (26.5 $km^2)$ of area, receives about 27.0 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 538.56, and is about 1.31% forested.
  
  