Black Pipe Creek

Black Pipe Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota.[1]

Black Pipe Creek received its name from the fact Indians obtained black shale from the area in order to make their pipes.[2]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Black Pipe Creek
  2. Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 13.


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