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Choppee Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Carolina. [1]

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According to tradition, Choppee Creek is named after an Indian tribe. [2] A variant name is "Chopper Creek". [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Choppee Creek
  2. Federal Writers' Project (1941). Palmetto Place Names. Sloane Printing Co. p. 34.