Skeleton Creek (Oklahoma)

Skeleton Creek is a stream in Logan, Kingfisher and Garfield counties, Oklahoma, in the United States.[1]

Skeleton Creek was so named in 1867 by pioneers who found at the creek bones of Wichita Indians who had died during an outbreak of cholera.[2]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Skeleton Creek (Oklahoma)
  2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. W.Y. Morgan. 1903. p. 216.



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