Cloudy Creek

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Cloudy Creek is a stream in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. [1] It is a tributary of the Little River.

Cloudy Creek was so named on account of the muddy (or "cloudy") character of its water. [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cloudy Creek
  2. Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. p. 25.

34°19′39″N95°11′56″W / 34.327602°N 95.198848°W / 34.327602; -95.198848