Blacklick Creek is a tributary stream of Big Walnut Creek in Licking, Fairfield and Franklin counties. The 27 mile long rock and slate bed creek has its headwaters near Mink Street in Jersey Township in northwestern Licking County [1]. It enters Franklin County in northeast Plain Township and flows near the Licking-Franklin Counties border. In southwest Reynoldsburg the stream enters Fairfield County. It re-enters Franklin County near Brice. The stream meets the Big Walnut Creek in Columbus, Ohio near Hamilton Road. The creek gets its name from the Native Americans who lived in the area and named the creek Black Lick because animals frequented the creek to lick the black colored salt stones in the creek.