Chicken Creek (South Dakota)

Chicken Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota.[1]

Some say Chicken Creek received its name for the fact chickens were raised in the area, while others believe pioneers erroneously called partridges, native to the area, chickens.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Chicken Creek (South Dakota)
  2. ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 21.


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