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Keg Creek

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Coordinates: 40°58′30″N 95°49′36″W / 40.9749996°N 95.8266734°W / 40.9749996; -95.8266734
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Keg Creek is a stream in Mills, Pottawattamie, Harrison and Shelby counties, in the U.S. state of Iowa.[1]

Keg Creek was named from the fact bootleggers rolled barrels of whisky in the creek in order to hide them from liquor control agents.[2]

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References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Keg Creek
  2. ^ History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa: Containing a History from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. O. L. Baskin & Company. 1883. p. 323.

40°58′30″N 95°49′36″W / 40.9749996°N 95.8266734°W / 40.9749996; -95.8266734



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