Lindsay Creek (Mad River tributary)

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Lindsay Creek is a stream in Humboldt County, California, in the United States. [1] It is a tributary of the Mad River.

Lindsay Creek was named for a pioneer settler. [2] During the early industrial logging era, the woods that surrounded Lindsay Creek was famous for having some of the largest coast redwood trees ever known, including the Lindsay Creek tree.

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lindsay Creek (Mad River tributary)
  2. Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 187.

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