Buck Creek (Mississippi River tributary)

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Buck Creek (north of US Highway 52)

Buck Creek [1] is a small tributary of the Upper Mississippi River flowing mainly through Garnavillo and Jefferson Townnships in Clayton County, Iowa, to join the Big River at Bussey Lake, a backwater lake approximately two miles above Lock and Dam No. 10 at Guttenberg, Iowa. The Army Corps of Engineers is working to reduce erosion problems in the creek's drainage.

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Clayton County maintains a 100-acre (0.40 km2) park on the creek.

Buck was so named in 1837 when a pioneer shot a deer there. [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Buck Creek
  2. Price, Realto E. (1916). History of Clayton County, Iowa: From the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present. Robert O. Law Company. p.  432.

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Coordinates: 42°50′13″N91°06′25″W / 42.836933°N 91.107073°W / 42.836933; -91.107073