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spring creek
A spring creek is a type of free flowing river whose name derives from its origin: an underground spring or set of springs which produces sufficient water to consistently feed a unique river. The water flowing in a spring creek may additionally b ...
is a stream that flows from a spring.
Spring Creek may also refer to any of the following specific places:
Australia
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Spring Creek, Queensland (Banana Shire)
Spring Creek is a rural locality in the Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. In the Spring Creek had a population of 15 people.
Geography
The locality is bounded to the south by the Dawson River. The Glebe Weir () impounds the river ...
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Spring Creek, Queensland (Darling Downs)
Spring Creek is a rural locality split between the Toowoomba Region and the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Spring Creek had a population of 194 people.
Geography
The land use is predominantly cropping with some grazi ...
, a locality split between Toowoomba Region and Southern Downs Region in southeastern Queensland
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Spring Creek, Queensland (Lockyer Valley Region)
Spring Creek is a rural locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Spring Creek had a population of 601 people.
History
Clarendon Provisional School opened on circa 1882. In 1903 it was renamed Springdale Provisiona ...
*Spring Creek, former name of
Graytown, Victoria
Graytown is a former gold mining town in central Victoria, Australia. Originally known as Spring Creek, Graytown was named after Moses Wilson Gray, who represented the electoral district of Rodney in the Victorian Legislative Assembly
The ...
Canada
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Spring Creek (Lake Erie), a watershed administered by the
Long Point Region Conservation Authority The Long Point Region Conservation Area is an agency of the province of Ontario, Canada, formed to preserve the volume of flow, and purity, of the watercourses that flow into Lake Erie, near Long Point.
Rivers that flow through the region include ...
, that drains into Lake Erie
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Spring Creek (Grenadier Pond) A spring creek is a stream that flows from a spring.
Spring Creek may also refer to any of the following specific places:
Australia
*Spring Creek, Queensland (Banana Shire)
*Spring Creek, Queensland (Darling Downs), a locality split between Too ...
, a tributary to Grenadier Pond, see
Wendigo Creek
New Zealand
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Spring Creek, New Zealand
Spring Creek is a small town in Marlborough, New Zealand. State Highway 1 runs past the settlement to the west, and the Wairau River flows past to the east. Picton is 22 km to the north, and Blenheim is 6 km to the south.
The first ...
, a township near Blenheim, New Zealand
United States
Settlements
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Spring Creek, Minnesota
Spring Creek is an unincorporated community in Friendship Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the Lis ...
, an unincorporated community
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Spring Creek Township, Becker County, Minnesota
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Spring Creek Township, Norman County, Minnesota
Spring Creek Township is a township in Norman County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 83 at the 2000 census.
Spring Creek Township was organized in 1880.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a tot ...
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Spring Creek, Missouri
Spring Creek is an extinct town in Phelps County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place. The community is on the southwest side of the confluence of Spring Creek and the Big Piney River. The site is on the Phe ...
, a ghost town
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Spring Creek Township, Custer County, Nebraska
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Spring Creek, Nevada
Spring Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in central Elko County, in northeastern Nevada in the western United States. It mainly serves as a bedroom community for the businesses and industries in and around the nearby city of Elko. It is pa ...
, a census-designated place
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Spring Creek, Brooklyn
Spring Creek, previously called Spring Creek Basin, is a neighborhood within the East New York section of Brooklyn in New York City. It roughly comprises the southern portions of East New York between Flatlands Avenue to the north, and Jamaica ...
, New York
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Spring Creek, North Carolina
Spring Creek is an unincorporated community in Madison County, North Carolina, United States. Located along NC 209, north of Trust and Luck, the community was named after Spring Creek, which is adjacent to the highway. The community is ...
, in Madison County, NC
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Spring Creek, Oklahoma
Spring Creek is an unincorporated community in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States. It is about south-southwest of Cogar, and just east of the Spring Creek watercourse that feeds into Lake Chickasha. It has a cemetery, church, schoolhouse, an ...
, an unincorporated community
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Spring Creek Township, Elk County, Pennsylvania
Spring Creek Township is a township in Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 198 at the 2020 census, down from 233 in 2010.
History
The Lake City School was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
Geog ...
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Spring Creek Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania
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Spring Creek, South Dakota
Spring Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Todd County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 236 at the 2020 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 9.3 square miles (2 ...
, a census-designated place
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Spring Creek, West Virginia
Spring Creek is an unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. Spring Creek is located on the Greenbrier River
The Greenbrier River is a tributary of the New River, long,McNeel, William P. "Greenbrier River. ...
, an unincorporated community
Waterways
California
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Spring Creek (Sonoma County, California)
Spring Creek, in Sonoma County, California, is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 9, 2011 stream that rises in the northern part of the Sonoma Mountains''Santa Rosa Q ...
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Spring Creek (Shasta County, California) A spring creek is a stream that flows from a spring.
Spring Creek may also refer to any of the following specific places:
Australia
*Spring Creek, Queensland (Banana Shire)
* Spring Creek, Queensland (Darling Downs), a locality split between To ...
, a main tributary of the
Fall River
Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the tenth-largest city in the state.
Located along the eastern shore of Mount H ...
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Spring Creek (San Mateo County, California) A spring creek is a stream that flows from a spring.
Spring Creek may also refer to any of the following specific places:
Australia
*Spring Creek, Queensland (Banana Shire)
* Spring Creek, Queensland (Darling Downs), a locality split between To ...
, a tributary of
Laguna Creek in San Mateo County
Colorado
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Spring Creek (Fort Collins, Colorado)
Spring Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 25, 2011 tributary of the Cache La Poudre River in the state of Colorado in the United States.
Spring Creek begins ...
, a tributary of the Cache La Poudre River
Delaware
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Spring Creek (Murderkill River tributary)
Spring Creek is a long 3rd order tributary to the Murderkill River in Kent County, Delaware.
Course
Spring Creek forms at the confluence of Hudson Branch and Pratt Branch about 2.5 miles northwest of Frederica, Delaware. Spring Creek then flo ...
, in Kent County
Georgia
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Spring Creek (Flint River tributary)
Spring Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 15, 2011 tributary of the Flint River in southwest Georgia in the United States.
Rising in the northeastern corner ...
Illinois
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Spring Creek (Macon County, Illinois)
Spring Creek is a stream in Macon County, Illinois. A tributary of Stevens Creek, itself a tributary of the Sangamon River, Spring Creek originates just northeast of the town of Forsyth before emptying into Stevens Creek west of Horace B. Garman ...
, a tributary of Stevens Creek
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Spring Creek (Sangamon County, Illinois), a tributary of the Sangamon River
Minnesota
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Spring Creek (Minnesota)
Spring Creek is a short river in southwestern Minnesota. It is a headwater to the Yellow Medicine River, which is a tributary to the Minnesota River. Springs are part of the source of the creek's water, hence the name. In the winter, the spri ...
, a headwater to the Yellow Medicine River
Missouri
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Spring Creek (Big Piney River tributary) in Texas and Phelps counties
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Spring Creek (Bourbeuse River tributary)
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Spring Creek (Bryant Creek tributary), in Douglas and Ozark counties
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Spring Creek (Chariton River tributary)
Spring Creek is a stream in Putnam, Sullivan and Adair counties of northern Missouri. It is a tributary of the Chariton River.
The stream headwaters arise in southern Putnam County approximately one mile east of the community of Lemmons just nort ...
, in Putnam, Sullivan and Adair counties
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Spring Creek (Dent County, Missouri)
Spring Creek is a stream in Dent County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Dry Fork.
The stream headwaters arise south of Salem just north of Missouri Route K and west of Missouri Route 19 (at ). The stream flows to the north t ...
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Spring Creek (Eleven Point River tributary) Spring Creek is a stream in eastern Howell, north central Oregon and southwestern Shannon counties in the Ozarks of southern Missouri. It is a tributary of the Eleven Point River.
The stream headwaters are at and the confluence with the Eleven Po ...
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Spring Creek (Gasconade River tributary)
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Spring Creek (North Fork River tributary), in Douglas and Howell counties
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Spring Creek (Shoal Creek tributary)
Spring Creek is a stream in northwestern Newton County, Missouri. It is a tributary of Shoal Creek.
The headwaters are located west of Spring City at . The stream flows northeast passing under and running along Missouri Route 86. The stream con ...
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Spring Creek (Stoddard County, Missouri)
Nebraska
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Spring Creek (Redbird Creek tributary), Holt County
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Spring Creek (Brush Creek tributary), Holt County
Nevada
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Spring Creek (West Deep Creek tributary)
North Carolina
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Spring Creek, Madison County, North Carolina Spring Creek is a tributary stream of the French Broad River in Madison County, North Carolina with a length of approximately 17 miles. It flows in much of its lower course through a section of the Pisgah National Forest and passes the communities ...
North Dakota
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Spring Creek (North Dakota), a tributary of the Knife River
Ohio
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Spring Creek (Great Miami River tributary)
Oklahoma
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Spring Creek (Beaver River Tributary)
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Spring Creek (Neosho River Tributary)
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Spring Creek
A spring creek is a type of free flowing river whose name derives from its origin: an underground spring or set of springs which produces sufficient water to consistently feed a unique river. The water flowing in a spring creek may additionally b ...
in Caddo County, Oklahoma, impounded for Chickasha Lake and a tributary of the Washita River
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Spring Creek
A spring creek is a type of free flowing river whose name derives from its origin: an underground spring or set of springs which produces sufficient water to consistently feed a unique river. The water flowing in a spring creek may additionally b ...
in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, impounded for
Spring Creek Lake (Oklahoma)
Spring Creek Lake is located on Spring Creek in Roger Mills County about 14 miles north of Cheyenne on US Route 283 and 8 miles west on SH-33, in the State of Oklahoma. It is inside the Black Kettle National Grassland, which is managed by the Cib ...
and a tributary of the Washita River
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Spring Creek
A spring creek is a type of free flowing river whose name derives from its origin: an underground spring or set of springs which produces sufficient water to consistently feed a unique river. The water flowing in a spring creek may additionally b ...
in Washita County, Oklahoma, a tributary of Cobb Creek
Pennsylvania
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Spring Creek (Bald Eagle Creek tributary) Spring Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 8, 2011 tributary of Bald Eagle Creek in Centre County, Pennsylvania in the United States.Gertler, Edward. ''Keysto ...
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Spring Creek (Clarion River), a tributary of the
Clarion River
The Clarion River is a tributary of the Allegheny River, approximately 110 mi (177 km) long, in west central Pennsylvania in the United States. It drains a rugged area of the Allegheny Plateau in the Ohio River watershed, flowing thr ...
in Elk County
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Spring Creek (Little Lehigh Creek tributary) Spring Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of Little Lehigh Creek in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.Gertler, Edward. ''Keyst ...
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Spring Creek (Susquehanna River tributary)
Spring Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 8, 2011 tributary of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
Spring Creek ri ...
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Spring Creek (Tulpehocken Creek) A spring creek is a stream that flows from a spring.
Spring Creek may also refer to any of the following specific places:
Australia
*Spring Creek, Queensland (Banana Shire)
* Spring Creek, Queensland (Darling Downs), a locality split between To ...
, a tributary of
Tulpehocken Creek (Pennsylvania)
Tulpehocken Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Schuylkill River in southeastern Pennsylvania in the United States, and during the A ...
in Berks County
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Spring Creek (White Deer Hole Creek tributary), in Lycoming County and Union County
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Spring Creek (Brokenstraw Creek tributary), in Warren County
Tennessee
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Spring Creek (Roaring River tributary), in Putnam, Overton and Jackson counties
Texas
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Spring Creek (Harris County, Texas)
Spring Creek is a creek that divides Harris and Montgomery County in Southeast Texas. It is the only natural creek in both Harris and Montgomery County. The Creek flows into the west fork of the San Jacinto River west of Lake Houston. Spring Cr ...
, terminates in Lake Houston in Harris County
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Spring Creek (Victoria County, Texas)
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Spring Creek (Tom Green County, Texas), an inflow of the
Twin Buttes Reservoir
Twin Buttes Reservoir is an artificial lake located about southwest of the city of San Angelo, Texas, and immediately upstream from Lake Nasworthy. Construction on Twin Buttes Dam to form the reservoir was completed in 1963. The dam is an unusu ...
in Tom Green County
West Virginia
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Spring Creek (Little Kanawha River tributary)
Spring Creek is a tributary of the Little Kanawha River in western West Virginia in the United States. Via the Little Kanawha and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of in a rural region on the ung ...
Wisconsin
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Spring Creek (Waupaca River tributary) Spring Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is a tributary to the Waupaca River
The Tomorrow/Waupaca River is a river that flows wholly within the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is called the Tomorrow River where it rises between Pol ...
Other places
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Spring Creek Correctional Center
Spring Creek Correctional Center is an Alaska Department of Corrections maximum security prison for men located in Seward, Alaska, United States.[Spring Creek Dam
Spring Creek Debris Dam is an earthfill dam on Spring Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River, in Shasta County in the U.S. state of California. Completed in 1963, the dam, maintained by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, serves primarily to colle ...]
, Shasta County, California
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Spring Creek Forest Preserve
The Spring Creek Forest Preserve is a city-owned nature preserve located in Garland, a suburb of Dallas, Texas.
History
In 1978, Bobby C. Scott, a self-taught botanist, recognized some plants in a section of woods in Garland, Texas as indicators ...
, Garland, Texas
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Spring Creek (Ontario) A spring creek is a stream that flows from a spring.
Spring Creek may also refer to any of the following specific places:
Australia
*Spring Creek, Queensland (Banana Shire)
*Spring Creek, Queensland (Darling Downs), a locality split between Too ...
, headwaters for
Heart Lake (Ontario)
Heart Lake is a lake located in the northern part of Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
Heart Lake along with Teapot Lake (0.7 hectares / depth) are kettle lakes with the latter being a unique meromictic lake.http://www.trca.on.ca/dotAsset/148584.pdf Th ...
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Spring Creek Park
Spring Creek Park is a public park along the Jamaica Bay shoreline between the neighborhoods of Howard Beach, Queens, and Spring Creek, Brooklyn, in New York City. Created on landfilled former marshland, the park is mostly an undeveloped nature ...
, New York City, New York
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Starrett City, Brooklyn
Starrett City (formally known as the Spring Creek Towers) is a housing development in the Spring Creek section of East New York, in Brooklyn, New York City. It is located on a peninsula on the north shore of Jamaica Bay, bounded by Fresh Creek ...
(formerly Spring Creek Towers), New York
See also
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Spring Creek Township (disambiguation)
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Spring Creek Lake (disambiguation) Spring Creek Lake may refer to:
* Spring Creek Lake located in Goodhue County, Minnesota
* Spring Creek Lake located in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma
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