Skeleton Creek (Oklahoma)

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Skeleton Creek is a stream in Logan, Kingfisher and Garfield counties, Oklahoma, in the United States. [1]

Skeleton Creek was so named in 1867 by pioneers who found at the creek bones of Wichita Indians who had died during an outbreak of cholera. [2]

At Lovell, the creek has a mean annual discharge of 146 cubic feet per second (4.1 cubic metres per second). [3]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Skeleton Creek (Oklahoma)
  2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. W.Y. Morgan. 1903. p. 216.
  3. "USGS Surface Water data for Oklahoma: USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics".

Coordinates: 35°59′17″N97°24′01″W / 35.988101°N 97.400319°W / 35.988101; -97.400319