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Skunk Creek (South Dakota)

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Skunk Creek
Map
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationBrant Lake, Lake County, South Dakota
Mouth 
 • location
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Skunk Creek is a tributary of the Big Sioux River, located in the southeastern South Dakota counties of Minnehaha and Moody. It has a confluence with the Big Sioux in the west central area of Sioux Falls.[2]

Skunk Creek was a natural habitat of skunks, hence the name.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Skunk Creek (South Dakota)
  2. ^ City of Sioux Falls, "Skunk Creek’s Influence on Flow and Water Quality in the Big Sioux River" (retrieved on November 5th, 2013).
  3. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.2. University of South Dakota. p. 70.