He also built textile looms, copying from one nearby, so that Ford could set up mills on the creek.

* Arroyo ( creek ), also called a wash, a dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain

The settlement was named for St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan Order, but was also commonly known as " Mission Dolores " owing to the presence of a nearby creek named Arroyo de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, meaning " Our Lady of Sorrows Creek.

The county also contains the Mesa Vista Ranch, which seeks to protect quail, dove and pheasant habitat along the creek beds south of the Canadian River.

* Papakating Creek is a ) creek in the north central region of the county beginning in Frankford Township also drains into the Wallkill, Rondout and the Hudson.

The creek banks also make a good attraction.

Lawn Hill and the surrounding regions are also inhabited by feral pigs which cause extensive damage to the land close by the creek systems.

The creek was also used to ship gopher turtles due to the high value their shell carried at that time.

( From the Illinois Valley Cultural Heritage Association website ) William Shelton, a ranger from Ft. Russell, Edwardsville, chose the alcove at the mouth of Hurricane Creek ( creek at Eldred also called Hurricane ), in 1826, to build a cabin.

Native Americans also lived in the area ; Kickapoo villages along a creek in the area led to it being named Indian Creek.

In the early 1840s the village of Yellow Creek was established in southwest Stephenson County, Illinois on a creek also named Yellow Creek.

The major neighborhoods in North Potomac include Potomac Grove, Amberlea Farm, Potomac Farm, Willows of Potomac, Potomac Glen ( also known as Piney Glen Village ), Stonebridge, Stoneview, Washingtonian Woods, Dufief Mill Estates, DuFief, Flints Grove, Mills Farm, Hunting Woods / Potomac Point, Lakewood Estates, Stoney creek Estates, Potomac Chase Estates, Potomac Crossing, Potomac Edge, Potomac Mill Farm, Potomac Oaks, Potomac Preserve, Potomac Ridge, Potomac Haven Estates, Potomac Valley ( Owens Glen ), Quail Run, Quince Haven, Quince Orchard Knolls, Travilah Meadows, Travilah Grove, Traville, Tobytown, and Westleigh.

A small bridge was destroyed, and numerous houses were also washed away by the creek.

The natural setting includes a small creek and trails and also landscaping with native plants and Crab Orchard stone walls.

His cabin stood near where the Presbyterian Church now stands, who also erected a saw mill on the creek, not far from the residence of H. E. Bassett.

The subdivision also has two pedestrian bridges that cross a creek to allow direct access to C. F.

Lebanon is also home to the Lebanon Mason Monroe Railroad, where passengers follow an old stage coach route passing meadow, pasture, a rippling creek and wildflowers along the way.

The bridge is also known as the " Buckhorn Covered Bridge " ( for a nearby mountain and vanished village ) or the " Larrys Creek Covered Bridge " ( for the creek it crosses ).

Montgomery was previously known as Black Hole for the creek that flows through it and the post office established in 1836 bearing that name and it was also known as Clinton Mills, again named for the post office.

The name is of Native American origin, from sakunk, meaning “ at the mouth of the creek .” The township also included South Bethlehem until 1865 and Hellertown until 1872.

Prior to the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1876, the area was used by Native Americans ( primarily bands of Sioux but others also ranged through the area ) who would spear fish in the creek ( hence the name of the creek and subsequently the town ).

Rapid City obtains most of its water supply from Rapid Creek and the alluvial aquifers associated with the creek, owning significant water rights in Pactola Reservoir located some west of the city, but does also obtain water from some springs in the vicinity, and has the ability to draw water from deep formations which receive water from recharge in areas of the Black Hills where the formations come to the surface.

Colonel Thomas Bailey came from Kentucky and formed the first settlement on the north fork of the creek which was about five miles to the northeast.

It was formed from a waterfall which undercut a cave beneath the waterfall and dug a pothole on top, until the two joined and the creek flowed through the cave, leaving an arch across the front.

For hours and hours they wept until their tears began to make trickling streams, which flowed into the valley where they formed a creek.

`` Liff's food is as good as his creek ,`` a magazine writer declared in 1839, referring to the Connetquot River, `` and the two are only second to his mint juleps and champagne punch ; whoever gainsays either fact deserves hanging without benefit of clergy .`` In 1866, as the railroad reached the area, Liff's wealthy patrons formed the Southside Sportsmen's Club, and soon the race was on to see who could create the most superb spread in the thick forests adjoining Great South Bay.

Early settlers later renamed the creek " Elk Creek ", and a community with the same name formed nearby.

The boundary with Jefferson Township is formed primarily by Northkill Creek, but diverges from the creek north of its confluence with Little Northkill Creek.

They returned and the creek served as the southern boundary of Lycoming County and Washington Township when it was formed in 1795.

The western boundary of Tuckahoe is formed by Tuckahoe Creek, a large undeveloped swampy creek which forms part of the boundary between Goochland County and Henrico County.

A lake formed by the creek near these springs has been greatly enlarged by damming the creek and now covers about, making it the largest body of salt water in the state.

In the mid-19th century the community was known as Running Brushy, named after a spring that formed the headwaters of a creek of the same name.

Canyons like this one ( formed by a creek flowing into the lower Daxia River ) cut the loess plateau in Linxia County, Gansu

As the creek flowed around Rainbow Bridge fin, these abrasive eddies formed on both the upstream and downstream sides and cut circular alcoves in the rock wall.

Billabongs are usually formed when the path of a creek or river changes, leaving the former branch with a dead end.

The eastern border between the then Danish province of Blekinge and the Swedish province of Småland was formed by the creek Brömsebäck.

This body of water was formed when the Canadian Pacific Railway dammed a creek in order to obtain a water supply for its steam engines.

The western border of the borough is formed by a creek, Sognsvannsbekken.

Both parks are located along Sugar Creek, and both feature the gorge system formed by the drainage of the creek as it cuts down through sandstone bedrock.

In order to play down this unsavoury branch of her family tree, Lacey instead used a story that Karen made up — that pioneers somehow got hold of a hot air balloon, got an aerial view of the town site, and noticed that the creek formed a shape similar to that of a dog's leg.

Outside the southern boundary of the area lies the creek known as Otterspool, which formed the boundary between Wavertree and West Derby.

Sediments seasonally washed out from the mouth of Cow Creek into the Missouri River formed Cow Island, just downriver from the creek mouth.

It is named after a nearby shale formation formed by a creek.

A large part of the eastern boundary is formed by a creek known locally as the Sandy River, or the Cratloe Creek.

In 1845 Khyber Pass Road was formed and the intersection of these three roads was called " Hobson's Bridge " referring to a small wooden bridge that crossed over " Hobson's creek " ( more or less where the railway track passes near the Olympic Swimming Pool ).