Buffalo Creek (Dewey County, South Dakota)

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]

See also

References

  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.


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