One of these creeks includes Minnehaha Creek.

The editor wrote about Burnt Bridge Creek and called it " Minnehaha, laughing water ", from Longfellow's poem, " Hiawatha ".

Tributaries such as Minnehaha Creek begot their own waterfalls as the Mississippi River valley was cut into the landscape.

The two seventeen-year-olds found the lake in 1822 by paddling up Minnehaha Creek, though few people visited the lake in the following 30 years.

According the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District, annual evaporation from the lake is about 30 inches ( 760 mm ) of water, or.

* Minnehaha Creek Watershed District

* Lake Nokomis, part of a chain of lakes connected by Minnehaha Creek in Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Dakota called Minnehaha Creek, " Wakpa Cistinna ", meaning " Little River ".

The main Minnesota Veterans Home is located on the bluff at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnehaha Creek.

As St. Anthony Falls moved past Minnehaha Creek and formed a deep river bed, they caused a new waterfall to form, the Minnehaha Falls which continued to move upstream in Minnehaha Creek.

There used to be an island in the Mississippi River near Minnehaha Creek.

The lower portion of Minnehaha Creek now flows through a wide and deep channel once belonging to the larger river.

The end of Minnehaha Creek where it joins the Mississippi River is the lowest surface point in the city of Minneapolis at 686 ft ( 209 m ) above sea level.

Image: Limestone-sandstone. jpg | Limestone / sandstone layers on the bank of Minnehaha Creek

* Minnehaha Creek Watershed District

* Minnehaha Creek Watershed District

* Minnehaha Creek ( left )

The community of Hazel Dell is bounded by Vancouver city limits on the South with Burnt Bridge Creek being a natural physical boundary, Vancouver Lake to the west, Lake Shore to the northwest, Salmon Creek to the north, I-205 / Barberton to the northeast and the communities of Rye and Minnehaha to the east.

Minnehaha County is a county located in the U. S. state of South Dakota.

Minnehaha County is part of the Sioux Falls, SD, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The Minnehaha Steamboat, a Steamboat used for passenger travel on Lake Minnetonka near the turn of the century, was raised from the bottom of Lake Minnetonka, restored, and is now available for rides from the Excelsior port during the summer by the Museum of Lake Minnetonka

Baltic is a city in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States.

Brandon is a city in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States Brandon is the seat of Brandon Township of Minnehaha County, and is located five miles east of Sioux Falls.

Colton is a city in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States.

Crooks is a city in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States and is a suburb of Sioux Falls.

Garretson is a city in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States.

Humboldt is a town in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States.

Sherman is a town in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States.

Valley Springs is a city in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States.

Minnehaha is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Clark County, Washington, United States.

While " Minnehaha ", an American Indian word, is often translated as " Laughing Water ", the correct translation is " curling water " or " waterfall ".

Minnehaha is located at ( 45. 655925 ,-122. 621983 ).

The school mascot is a Spartan, and the school's main rivals are Breck School, Blake School and Minnehaha Academy.

Other 19th-century sculptors inspired by the epic were Augustus Saint-Gaudens ; his marble statue of the seated Hiawatha ( 1874 ) is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Jacob Fjelde created a bronze statue, Hiawatha carrying Minnehaha, for the Columbian Exposition in 1893.

The kinship of the latter is with other kitsch images, like Bufford's cover for " The Death of Minnehaha " ( see above ) or those of the 1920s calendar painters James Arthur and Rudolph F. Ingerle ( 1879 – 1950 ).

The creek might have been unremarkable except for the 53-foot ( 16 m ) Minnehaha Falls located near the creek's confluence with the Mississippi.

Minnehaha Park is also within the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park Service.

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* Mississippi River gorge area extends from downtown Minneapolis to Minnehaha Park.

Most of the 66 South Dakota counties are named for early South Dakota officials or legislators, or for physical features ( Fall River and Lake ), or are derived from Indian words ( Minnehaha and Yankton ), or from counties in other states ( Jones and Walworth ), with one ( Aurora ) named for a Roman goddess, one for an animal ( Buffalo ), and one ( Union ) for a concept.

The Big Sioux River rises in Roberts County, South Dakota on a low plateau known as the Coteau des Prairies and flows generally southwardly through Grant, Codington, Hamlin, Brookings, Moody, and Minnehaha counties, past the communities of Watertown, Castlewood, Bruce, Flandreau, Egan, Trent, Dell Rapids, and Baltic to Sioux Falls, where it passes over a waterfall which gives that city its name.

Another association is Minnehaha Island, Montgomery County, Maryland (), in the Potomac River.