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Yellow Creek (South Dakota)

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Coordinates: 44°20′26″N 103°45′15″W / 44.34056°N 103.75417°W / 44.34056; -103.75417
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Yellow Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota.[1] It is a tributary of Whitewood Creek with the confluence south of Lead, South Dakota.[2]

It was named for the yellow color of its water, which comes from limestone and sandstone deposits.[3]

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References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Yellow Creek (South Dakota)
  2. ^ Lead, SD, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1961
  3. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 70.

44°20′26″N 103°45′15″W / 44.34056°N 103.75417°W / 44.34056; -103.75417


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