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Lee Creek Bridge may refer to:
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- 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lee Creek
- ↑ History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Higginson Book Company. 1889. p. 553.
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