Yellow Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota.[1] It is a tributary of Whitewood Creek with the confluence south of Lead, South Dakota.[2]
It was named for the yellow color of its water, which comes from limestone and sandstone deposits.[3]
See also
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edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Yellow Creek (South Dakota)
- ^ Lead, SD, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1961
- ^ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 70.
44°20′26″N 103°45′15″W / 44.34056°N 103.75417°W