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Rifle Creek is a
Rifle Creek is a stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...
in Garfield County Garfield County is the name of several counties in the United States:
* Garfield County, Colorado
*Garfield County, Montana
*Garfield County, Nebraska
*Garfield County, Oklahoma
* Garfield County, Utah
*Garfield County, Washington
Garfie ...
in the U.S. state
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of Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...
. It is a tributary of the Colorado River
The Colorado River () is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The river, the List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem), 5th longest in the United St ...
.
Rifle Creek starts at the confluence of West Rifle Creek and East Rifle Creek, and the junction is within the waters of the Rifle Gap Reservoir. The stream flows south and enters the Colorado after passing through the city of Rifle
A rifle is a long gun, long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting and higher stopping power, with a gun barrel, barrel that has a helical or spiralling pattern of grooves (rifling) cut into the bore wall. In keeping with their focus o ...
.
The creek's source is at , and it flows into the Colorado at .
Rifle Creek was named from an incident in which a rifle
A rifle is a long gun, long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting and higher stopping power, with a gun barrel, barrel that has a helical or spiralling pattern of grooves (rifling) cut into the bore wall. In keeping with their focus o ...
was found along its banks.
See also
*List of rivers of Colorado
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##Tributary chart, Tributary chart
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References
Rivers of Garfield County, Colorado Rivers of Colorado {{Colorado-river-stub