Long Pine Creek

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Long Pine Creek is a stream in Rock and Brown counties, Nebraska, in the United States. [1]

Long Pine Creek was named from the dense growth of pine trees along its banks. [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Long Pine Creek
  2. Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 95.

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