Dinner Creek

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Dinner Creek is a stream in Koochiching County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. [1]

Dinner Creek was named from the fact lumbermen often gathered there for dinner. [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dinner Creek
  2. Warren Upham (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p.  282.

Coordinates: 48°5′2.5″N93°57′57.5″W / 48.084028°N 93.965972°W / 48.084028; -93.965972