Spring Creek is a tributary of the
Knife River
The Knife River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 120 mi (193 km) long, in North Dakota in the United States.
Knife is an English translation of the Native American name.
It rises in west central North Dakota, in ...
, approximately 50 mi (80 km) long, in western
North Dakota
North Dakota ( ) is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota people, Dakota and Sioux peoples. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minneso ...
in the
United States
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.
It rises in the
Killdeer Mountains
The Killdeer Mountains are a mountain range in Dunn County, North Dakota, United States. It consists of two mesas, North Mountain and South Mountain. Much of the range formation was caused by wind, river and lake erosion.
The Killdeer Mountains ...
, in
Dunn County, and flows east across the prairie country, past
Killdeer
The killdeer (''Charadrius vociferus'') is a large plover found in the Americas. Its shrill, two-syllable call is often heard, sounding like "kill deer". It was described and given its current scientific name in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 1 ...
,
Dunn Center
The Winfield Dunn Center (officially the Winfield Dunn Health and Physical Education Building and Convocation Complex) is a facility, located on the main campus of Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. Construction began on th ...
,
Halliday
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*Alexander Henry Haliday (1807–1870), Irish entomologist
*Andrew Halliday (journalist) (1830–1877), British journalist and dramatist
*Andrew Halliday (physician) (1782& ...
, and
Zap. It joins the Knife near
Beulah.
See also
*
List of North Dakota rivers
This is a list of rivers in the state of North Dakota in the United States.
Alphabetically
* Bois de Sioux River
* Cannonball River
* Cedar Creek
* Cut Bank Creek
* Deep River
* Des Lacs River
* Elm River (North Dakota), tributary of Red River of ...
External links
*
Rivers of North Dakota
Rivers of Dunn County, North Dakota
Rivers of Mercer County, North Dakota
Knife River
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