Hart Creek (South Dakota)

Hart Creek is a stream in Perkins County in the U.S. state of South Dakota.[1] It is a tributary to Thunder Butte Creek.

The headwaters arise at 45°32′01″N 102°19′42″W / 45.53361°N 102.32833°W / 45.53361; -102.32833[1] an elevation of 2770 feet about six miles east of Bison and just north of South Dakota Highway 20 and southeast of the Boxcar Buttes area.[2]

The confluence with Thunder Butte Creek is just south of the community of Chance[3] at 45°24′39″N 102°17′01″W / 45.41083°N 102.28361°W / 45.41083; -102.28361 and an elevation of 2507 feet.[1]

Hart Creek was named after an early settler.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hart Creek (South Dakota)
  2. ^ Boxcar Buttes, S. Dakota, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1983
  3. ^ Chance, South Dakota, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1983
  4. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 34.


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