Scalp Creek

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Scalp Creek is a stream system in the U.S. state of South Dakota. According to the GNIS, it consists of North Scalp Creek[1] and South Scalp Creek.[2]

Scalp Creek received its name from an incident when a man was scalped by Sioux Indians.[3]

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: North Scalp Creek
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: South Scalp Creek
  3. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.1-3. University of South Dakota. p. 56.


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