The earliest Missoulians are recorded as drawing their water directly from the Clark Fork River or nearby Rattlesnake Creek.

This creek was named Rattlesnake Creek (although today it is called Timber Creek).

Octa is a village in Fayette County, Ohio, United States, along Rattlesnake Creek.

Many portions of the roadway above Rattlesnake Creek also received damage from the flooding, including silt and debris scattered onto it.

In 1864, the Army had began using a site along Rattlesnake Creek, in what is now Harney County, Oregon, for temporary supply drops.

The Army established a permanent outpost near the mouth of Rattlesnake Creek on 16 August 1867.

The fort structures were built on a flat west of Rattlesnake Creek between steep ridges that flanked the stream.

The nearest stream with year-round flow is Rattlesnake Creek which flows from south of the village and passes just to the west of the village.

East of Osborne Hill the drainage is toward Rattlesnake Creek, a tributary of Wolf Creek.

The lake discharges into Rattlesnake Creek, a tributary of the Pit River.