Black Pipe Creek

Coordinates: 43°47′08″N 101°13′51″W / 43.78556°N 101.23083°W / 43.78556; -101.23083
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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]

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  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.

43°47′08″N 101°13′51″W / 43.78556°N 101.23083°W / 43.78556; -101.23083