Bald Head Island's creek estuaries and its abundance of shellfish were probably as attractive to Native American fishermen as they are to modern fishermen.

The name of Blacklick for the creek that bisects the town and the adjacent township probably means much the same as " brook of coal ," a lick being a common synonym for brook and the " black " referring to outcroppings of coal seams on the stream banks and bed.

' Draft ' probably refers to the document drafting the land sale or is a reference to the river itself ( draft is an old term for river or creek and is part of the name of several such in the area ).

The area selected was a beautiful one with plentiful oak trees ( which is probably where Oaks got its name from ) and a spring creek ( today called Spring Creek ), and the site was on the military road from Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, to St. Louis, Missouri.

Work to fill the ravine or divert the creek would probably be very expensive and might face opposition from environmentalists.

The creek can be floated down at really high water, but an inner-tube would probably work best.

Walking along the creek to the area at which the foot bridge crosses, the Glenwood Shale Formation, a thin layer of grey-green rock probably deposited in a deeper-water offshore from the beaches, can be seen where it has been exposed by erosion.

Hunslet is first mentioned as Hunslet in the Domesday Book of 1086, though twelfth-century spellings of the name such as Hunsflete seem to be more conservative: the name appears originally to have meant ' Hūn's inlet ', from an Anglo-Saxon personal name Hūn and the Old English word flēot ' creek, inlet ', probably referring to an inlet from the River Aire.

Mining still goes on at Ganes and Little creeks, and probably at Ophir creek ( 2006 ).

It was said that war parties coming from certain areas in northern Kalinga ( probably, the ancient place of Banao ) used to meet by a creek when mapping out their plan of attack against or when regrouping after attacking a certain village.

The name Pydhonie or " foot-wash ", and probably refers to a small creek that formed at high tide between the Great Breach ( separating the islands of Bombay and Worli ) and Umarkhadi, the creek between the islands of Mazagaon and Mumbai ( Bombay ).

About 300 yards up the creek was a cluster of Mexican houses containing six rooms in the form of a square.

The port was used as the sailing point for the Crusades of 1147 and 1190, and a creek close to Dartmouth Castle is supposed by some to be named for the vast fleets which assembled there ( Warfleet Creek ).

Their clothing was found in the creek, some of it twisted around sticks that had been thrust into the muddy ditch bed.

Police believed the boys were assaulted and killed at the location where they were found ; critics argued that the assault, at least, was unlikely to have occurred at the creek.

Officials failed to drain the creek in a timely manner and secure possible evidence in the water ( the creek was sandbagged after the bodies were pulled from the water ).

The creek to the east of the bridge was filled in with material from the quarries at Cattedown and Oreston during the late 1890s and the ground created became a municipal park, Victoria Park, which was officially opened in 1903.

The remainder of the creek to the west of Millbridge, up to Stonehouse Bridge and Pool, was filled in and by 1972 the whole area had been developed as rugby pitches.

" When they rounded it they spotted the figure behind it nearly simultaneously, while it was " crouching beside the creek to their left.

When a mortar team from the US 10th Mountain Division was hit by enemy mortar fire, Wallace put himself in harm's way, collecting some of the wounded by dragging them into the creek bed, then dressing their wounds along with another SASR liaison officer.

The house was within a kilometre of a creek, and Hird and his friends would often ride their bikes to the creek to fish or hunt for yabbies.

The creek was closed to swimming in 2006 after geothermal activity in the area increased, and was still closed as of August 2010.

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.

When we arrived at a lovely creek, which because it was the Friday of Sorrows Friday before Palm Sunday, the 3rd of April 1776, we called the Arroyo de los Dolores ... On the banks of the Arroyo ... we discovered many fragrant chamomiles and other herbs, and many wild violets.

Although they are marine creatures, dugongs have been known to travel up to up creeks, and in one case a dugong was caught up a creek near Cooktown.

In 1873, A. D. Ferron, the surveyor, named this creek after himself, but prior to this time it was known as Rafael.

Her design was inspired by her European ventures, especially from the Italian Renaissance gardens, and consisted of a establishing a sophisticated relationship between the architectural and natural environments, with formal terraced gardens stepping a down steep slope and transitioning to a more naturalistic aesthetic approaching the creek.

By the end of the year, over one hundred tents were scattered about the creek and the settlement was referred to as Angels Trading Post, later shortened to Angels Camp.

Matanzas creek was shown to be polluted in Sonoma county first flush results.

At some time prior to the 10th century it would have been a fishing village on a sandy beach backed by pebbles and a creek, It was improved by the Count of Flanders in 997 and fortified by the Count of Boulogne in 1224.

It was named for the small creek called Tague Fork.

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

By 1900, soil was so completely washed from hillsides and creek bottoms that crops could not be grown.

and up and down the creek nearly to Camp Verde picked up their mail at the Rimrock Post Office so the former area of Beaver Creek School district generally became known as Rimrock.

He cursed the uncooperative weather, his bad luck, and the flooded creek crossing so fluently that the offending stream dried up immediately and he was able to cross.

It is so named for the hollow in the creek that runs alongside Webb Road, the true name of which is actually Webb Hollow Road.

Swartekill hamlet was so named because of its location on the Swartekill creek where it meets the Wallkill.

The settlement is built in the hollow ( micro valley of the Kaluđerički potok creek ), with a specific microclimate, so out of all parts of Belgrade Kaluđerica is often the foggiest and the first one to have snow in winter.

Without pack animals, Burke, Wills and King were unable to carry enough water to leave Cooper Creek and cross the Strzelecki Desert to Mount Hopeless, and so the three men were unable to leave the creek.

The course suggested will be almost in a direct line, from my knowledge of the land …. On the back part of the Island is a muddy creek and the distance of the Island to Boston is not so great by one third, I presume as it is from Chelsea to Moreton Point in Charlestown ....

Over many millenniums, this greater seasonal discharge eroded and widened the creek bottom so it became flat enough for a team and wagon to traverse.

A study showed that a 1 in 200 year flood would inundate 13, 000 properties ; so the Kangaroo Creek dam's level was raised, its spillway modified, the breakout creek channel capacity increased and some bridges reinforced.

One of the rare open-air prehistoric sites found so far in the Americas, Monte Verde was well preserved because it was located in an anaerobic bog environment near the creek.

The US Army Corps of Engineers filled in the creek separating Hog Island from the mainland with silt dredged out of the shipping channels so that Hog Island became part of the mainland.

Early French explorers reported the abundance of buffalo on the south shore of Lake Erie, but their presence on the banks of Buffalo Creek is still a matter of debate, so the origin of the name of the creek is still uncertain.

When the plane persisted in its aim, he swam up the creek, with only his head above water, and remained so until the shooting was over.

Waterdown, and its associated Great Falls, ( also called Grindstone Falls, so named for the creek that feeds it, or Smokey Hollow Falls, so named for the smoke rising from the hollow from the mills, or Barnes ' Falls, named after the Barnes family who owned the property until 1978 ), are located on the local portion of the Bruce Trail System in Ontario.

Although Smith's brigade was strongly posted behind a creek, Smith had not conferred with Stansbury before deploying his brigade, so there was a gap of a mile between them, and Smith's men could not support Stansbury.

Lee expected Jackson's flanking movement to force Porter to abandon his line behind the creek, and so A. P. Hill and Longstreet would not have to attack Union entrenchments.

Stonewall Jackson moved slowly and spent the entire day north of the creek, making only feeble efforts to cross and attack Franklin's VI Corps in the Battle of White Oak Swamp, attempting to force back the enemy so that a destroyed bridge could be rebuilt, although adequate fords were nearby, by a fruitless artillery duel.

The original headwaters were diverted to Highland Creek when the highway was widened to 12 lanes, so the creek now starts at a stormwater outfall just south of the highway.

During heavy rains, the main creek often floods the fields at the park, and increasingly so due to excessive runoff from heavy land development in the area.

The left hand one goes along the creek and to a bridge that reaches a small island with a picnic area in the creek, the second up a five or so metre high hill and along through coastal bush.