Name: Calfee Creek

 

County: Park

 

Authority Name: 

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1100654W

Latitude: 444653N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 6896/2102

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Stream

 

Origin of Name:

Creek, Yellowstone National Park, ... flowing west into Lamar River. Named for H. B. Calfee, noted park photographer.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932

 

Named for H.B. Calfee who was a famous photographer of the park.

Source: WPA

 

Named in 1880 by Norris for H. B. Calfee, a photographer of note. "Some seven miles above Cache Creek we passed the mouth of another stream in a deep, narrow, timbered valley, which we named Calfee Creek, after the famous photographer of the Park. Five miles further on, we reached the creek which Miller recognized as the one he descended in retreating from the Indians in 1870, and which, on this account, we called Miller's Creek." Norris in Annual Report Superintendent of the Park for 1880

Source: Chittenden

 

Other Names: Lodgepole Creek

 

Alternative Spellings:

 

History:

 

Stories:

 

Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Wahb Springs

 

Newspapers:

 

More Information: 

H.B. Calfee Stereographs of Yellowstone National Park ca. 1875-1880

http://www.lib.montana.edu/collect/spcoll/findaid/2324.html

 

The Yellowstone Stereoview Page  - Henry Bird Calfee

http://www.yellowstonestereoviews.com/publishers/calfee.html

 

Pictures:

 

 

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