Name: Skull Creek

 

County: Weston

 

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Longitude:  1041626W

Latitude: 434657N

 

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Elevation: 3944/1202

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Feature Type: Stream

 

Origin of Name:

A scout, by the name of Reynolds, with General Custer, in 1874, named this creek for the great number of buffalo skulls which were found along the stream. Apparently these skulls had been left by the Gore Party, in 1854. 

Source: WPA

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Osage SE

 

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