Name: Surprise Creek
County: Teton
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GNIS Entry
Longitude: 1102644W
Latitude: 441450N
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Elevation: 7470/2277
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Feature Type: Stream
Origin of Name:
Creek, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., ... flowing southwest into Heart River.
Source: Decisions, 1890-1932
Named by the United States Geological Survey in 1885. Its course, as made known by recent explorations, was surprisingly different than that which earlier explorations had indicated.
Source: Chittenden
Creek in Yellowstone Park, so named because recent explorations find its course different than was formerly supposed.
Source: Gannett
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1:24000 Quadrangle: Mount Hancock
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