Indian Field Creek is on a peninsula in the Tidewater region of Virginia. This peninsula is one of three in the eastern part of Virginia. The Virginia Peninsula, as it is called, is bordered by the York River to its north and the James River on the south. Indian Field Creek gets its water from the lower part of the York River, which in turn feeds into the Chesapeake Bay.
Indian Field Creek is home to an archaeological site called Kiskiak, which was a Native American town for at least 3,000 years. Kiskiak is composed of 8 separate archaeological sites surrounding Indian Field Creek, indicating that native people lived throughout the area at different points in the community’s long history. There is lots of evidence of human-environmental interaction in this area, including shell middens, which are large trash piles of oyster shells.
