Schooner Creek

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Schooner Creek is a stream in Brown County, Indiana, in the United States.

The stream consists of two sections: Upper Schooner Creek [1] and Lower Schooner Creek. [2] The river system was named for a German pioneer settler named Schoonover. [3]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Upper Schooner Creek
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lower Schooner Creek
  3. Blanchard, Charles (1884). Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana: Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Company. p.  720.

39°09′29″N86°20′11″W / 39.15806°N 86.33639°W / 39.15806; -86.33639