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Nameless Creek

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Nameless Creek is a stream in Hancock County, Indiana, in the United States.[1]

Nameless Creek was so named in about 1830 when an early settler inquired about the name of a creek he had crossed, and upon learning it had no name, said, "It is a nameless creek", and the name stuck ever since.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Nameless Creek
  2. ^ Binford, John H. (1882). History of Hancock County, Indiana: From Its Earliest Settlement by the "pale Face," in 1818, Down to 1882 ... King & Binford, publishers. p. 60.