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]

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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.

Coordinates: 39°42′53″N85°40′40″W / 39.71472°N 85.67778°W / 39.71472; -85.67778



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