Buffalo Creek (Dewey County, South Dakota)

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Coordinates: 45°12′39″N 100°20′31″W / 45.21083°N 100.34194°W / 45.21083; -100.34194
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Buffalo Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

A variant name was Buffalo Skin Creek.[1] The stream's name comes from the Sioux Indians of the area, after the buffalo they hunted.[2]

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Buffalo Creek (Dewey County, South Dakota)
  2. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 16.

45°12′39″N 100°20′31″W / 45.21083°N 100.34194°W / 45.21083; -100.34194


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