Whitewood Creek

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Whitewood Creek is a stream in Butte, Meade and Lawrence counties, in the U.S. state of South Dakota. [1]

Whitewood Creek was named from the white-barked quaking aspen trees along its banks. [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Whitewood 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. 138.

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