Little Goose Creek is a creek originating on the east slope of the
Big Horn Mountains
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in north-central
Wyoming
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.
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Route
After dropping over and entering a steep canyon, the creek flows out of the
Big Horn Mountains
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and into the
Powder River Basin
The Powder River Basin is a geologic structural basin in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming, about east to west and north to south, known for its extensive coal reserves. The former hunting grounds of the Oglala Lakota, the area is very ...
. Passing by the
Bradford Brinton Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, the creek flows through Lions Park in
Big Horn, Wyoming
Big Horn is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Sheridan County, Wyoming, Sheridan County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 457 at the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census.
History
Big Horn is along the ...
. Several miles downstream the creek flows through the
Powder Horn Golf Course. Upon entering the town of
Sheridan, Little Goose Creek enters a channel built by the
Corps of Engineers in the 1940s.
Following the channel, the stream meets Big Goose Creek at Mill Park near the Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library, and becomes
Goose Creek, which flows and empties into the
Tongue River, north of Sheridan.
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Rivers of Wyoming
Tributaries of the Yellowstone River
Bodies of water of Sheridan County, Wyoming
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