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Butcher Creek (Meade and Ziebach counties, South Dakota)

Coordinates: 44°51′31″N 101°57′25″W / 44.85861°N 101.95694°W / 44.85861; -101.95694
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Butcher Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota.[1]

Butcher Creek received its name from a skirmish between Indians in which a warrior was "butchered up".[2]

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Butcher Creek (Meade and Ziebach counties, South Dakota)
  2. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 17.

44°51′31″N 101°57′25″W / 44.85861°N 101.95694°W / 44.85861; -101.95694