Goose Creek (Ohio)

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Goose Creek is a stream in Preble County, Ohio, in the United States. It is a 5.1 mile-long tributary of Bantas Fork. [1]

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Goose Creek was named from the fact a family of settlers allowed their geese to roam its banks. [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Goose Creek (Ohio)
  2. Lowry, Robert Eaton (1915). History of Preble County, Ohio: Her People, Industries and Institutions. B.F. Bowen. p. 124.