Kettle Creek (Colorado)

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Part of the Kettle Creek watershed as viewed from a bridge on Voyager Parkway

Kettle Creek is a stream in El Paso County, Colorado, in the United States. [1]

Kettle Creek was so named from an incident when a kettle was lost near its banks. [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kettle Creek (Colorado)
  2. Trask, Larry; Trask, Robert Lawrence (January 2010). Why Do Languages Change?. Cambridge University Press. p. 77. ISBN   978-0-521-83802-3.

Coordinates: 38°58′22.5″N104°48′10.5″W / 38.972917°N 104.802917°W / 38.972917; -104.802917