Okabena_Creek

Okabena Creek

Okabena Creek

River in Minnesota, United States

Okabena Creek is a 40-mile-long (64 km)[1] waterway in southern Minnesota.[2] It is a tributary, via the short Diversion Creek, of Heron Lake, the outlet of which flows to the Des Moines River. Okabena Creek begins in Worthington, Minnesota, connecting by a ditch to the outlet of Okabena Lake, then flows northeast past the towns of Brewster and Okabena to the Heron Lake/South Heron Lake system.[3][4][5]

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Okabena is the Sioux-language word meaning "Heron Lake".[6]

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References

  1. [1]
    U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 26, 2011
  2. [2]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Okabena Creek
  3. [3]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Okabena Creek
  4. [4]
    "Minnesota Watersheds". Minnesota DNR. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  5. [5]
    USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Minnesota (1974). USGS. 1976.
  6. [6]
    Upham, Warren (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 264.

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