Battle Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota.[1] It is a tributary of the Cheyenne River, traversing Oglala Lakota and Pennington counties and the town of Keystone.[1]

Battle Creek was named for a skirmish between two indigenous tribes.[2]

Battle Creek is fed by Iron Creek.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Battle Creek (Cheyenne River tributary)
  2. ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 10.

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