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War", or "Big Fight", Qualchan and six other
Palouses were captured and hanged along Latah Creek, giving rise to the name, Hangman Creek. On 5 October of that year, four more Indians were hanged alongside the creek. In November, 33 Indian hostages were released, ending the war. In the aftermath, the
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passed the area in 1805, they believed that the name was "Lau-taw". Later in a railroad survey, the name used on the small-scale maps was Camas
Prairie Creek, while on the maps of larger scale, the name was Kamas Prairie Creek. Other derivatives, including Lahtoo and Kamass, arose from these names,
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resides. Some major tributaries of the approximately 60-mile (97 km) creek include Little Latah Creek (also known as Little
Hangman Creek) and Rock Creek. The average flow of the creek can range from 20 cubic feet per second (0.57 m/s) to 20,000 cubic feet per second (570 m/s). Latah
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Agricultural land use covers 212,880 acres (861.5 km) of the Latah Creek watershed, followed by 119,490 acres (483.6 km) of forest. Urban areas within the Latah Creek basin cover only 12,565 acres (50.85 km). Because of its importance as a tributary to the
Spokane, the pollution in
877:. The topography here are steep ridges and peaks dissected by deep, forested close-to-bedrock valleys, drained by rocky and steep mountain streams, with a light covering of soil. After its mountainous headwaters, the creek passes through the much more rounded, older Palouse Hills. Below the deep
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California Creek, a 8-mile (13 km), west-southwest tributary, also on the right bank. In its final few miles, California Creek also plunges down a narrow gorge into the Latah Creek canyon. Latah Creek then continues north, and begins to
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1113:. Nearby homesteaders William and Thomas Donahoe also drained a similar bog and located more bones and a skull. These bones, along with those from the Coplen bog, were delivered first to other cities in Washington State for exhibition. The original mammoth skeleton was later delivered to the
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Streamflow in Latah Creek is highly variable, with the creek tending to flood in the winter and spring, diminishing to almost completely dry in the summer. The creek typically does not totally dry up, however, due to agricultural return flows. The monthly average is 242 cubic feet per second
824:, then turns west then north, crossing under State Route 27, entering a narrow gorge similar to that of Latah Creek. After meandering in the down cut gorge for a while, the creek straightens out and heads west-northwest, spilling into Latah Creek after turning sharply south just southwest of
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neighborhoods. As
Highway 195 continues to parallel it on the left, High Drive winds along the canyon rim on the east (right) bank. With high bluffs rising on the east side and lower cliffs on the west, the creek receives Marshall Creek on the left bank, and its second-last named tributary,
912:, was breached. The floods have deposited "terraces", otherwise known as "backflood deposits", which the creek has eroded through, creating steep and unstable gravel slopes topped by sheer cliffs. Near Spokane, the creek turns to the northwest in a nearly straight line; this is caused by a
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but another name, Ned-Whauld Creek (or Ned-Whauld River) was also documented. Other variant names of the creek include Sin-sin-too-ooley, Hangmans Creek, Hangman's Creek, Hngosmn, Kamas
Prairie Creek, Lah-Tah, Lah-taw, Lah-too, Lahtoo, Lartoo, Neduald, and Sin-sin-too-aley.
889:, which finally rises to meet stream elevation at the Washington-Idaho state border. Most of the creek from where it turns north at Sanders to about 20 miles (32 km) upstream of its mouth flows in a broad and shallow, arid valley atop several hundred feet of
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overall in the Latah Creek basin is quite low, and "Washington State water quality standards for temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, and fecal coliforms are routinely violated." The remaining third of the land in the watershed is mostly forest.
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where it was once dammed for a mill, and enters Latah Creek between the Creek at
Qualchan golf course and the Cheney-Spokane Road exit of US-195. The creek receives flow from Minnie Creek, which also begins in the wetlands East of Cheney.
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Spokane. It was examined in the vicinity of Tekoa, Washington, where it was found to be a small filthy stream not suitable for trout but well supplied with minnows and suckers of several
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have frequently disagreed on the name of the creek. While
Washington State, specifically Spokane County, claims and refers to the creek as Latah, the Board and local residents still refers to the creek as Hangman.
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have disappeared in that time period. In the inventory taken by Gilbert and Evermann (1892) there were many species of suckers, some of which are still present in the creek today. The Native American variant name
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in the creek has increased, while water quality and habitat have decreased. At its mouth, Latah Creek has been known to contribute up to 90 percent of the flow of the downstream Spokane, and as low as 1 percent.
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Little Latah Creek, about 10 miles (16 km) long, is a generally southwest-flowing stream, and at the confluence carries almost as much water as Latah Creek. The creek begins a few miles south of
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outpost while traveling alone. He was said to have prayed to the god of the mist to disarm the camp's sentries, and as a result, it began to snow, and when the snow had changed into a
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820:. The North Fork is actually longer than the mainstream, although it carries only a slight amount of water when they join. The creek then crosses the state border and flows west of
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688:. A few miles after its headwaters, it receives the South Fork Latah Creek, which flows north. At the confluence, the creek turns north, flowing past the towns of Sanders and
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across this wide floodplain. The conversion of the floodplain to agricultural uses, however, forced the creek to flow in a straighter course. As a result,
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fish. However, the creek was shallow and slow-moving naturally, and was not an important habitat for these fish. The primary fishes of Latah Creek were
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1469:"The Case of the Mullan Road: Naming Features Along the Railroad and Road Surveys in the Northern Rockies"
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1257:"Hangman Creek Conservation Success Index: Opportunities for Redband Trout Restoration and Protection"
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1382:"The Hangman (Latah) Creek Water Resources and Management Plan"
1312:"Hangman (Latah) Creek Watershed Planning Project: Project Map"
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horses out of the camp, and took them to his camp on the
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Sunset Highway and I-90 Crossing Latah Creek in Spokane.
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1812:. Northwest Science, Vol. 48, No. 1. Archived from
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1419:. Spokane Basin Watershed Planning. Archived from
1342:"Hangman (Latah) Creek Watershed Planning Project"
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71:Location of the mouth of Latah Creek in Washington
1533:"Spokane Subbasin Overview (section Latah Creek)"
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1801:Maughan, O. Eugene; Laumeyer, Philip L. (1974).
1765:Laumeyer, Philip H.; Maughan, O. Eugene (1973).
901:that inundated the area after an ice dam on the
735:. As it enters the Spokane it flows through the
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1672:"USGS Gage #12424000 on Latah Creek at Spokane"
1633:. www.ecy.wa.gov. February 2006. Archived from
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1842:Indians of the Pacific Northwest: A History.
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1840:Ruby, Robert H.; Brown, John A (1988).
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1844:University of Oklahoma Press.
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1264:fs.usda.gov
1166:Chiselmouth
1095:homesteader
887:groundwater
692:, entering
609:channelized
601:agriculture
501:Latah Creek
460:Tributaries
442:Progression
340: /
328:117°27′28″W
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190:Spokane, WA
112:Native name
29:Latah Creek
1875:Categories
1823:2014-05-28
1787:2014-05-28
1751:2009-07-20
1730:2009-07-20
1687:2009-07-22
1644:2009-07-18
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1194:References
1139:anadromous
1020:Streamflow
982:Deep Creek
960:The small
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808:Rock Creek
758:a railroad
741:West Hills
678:headwaters
546:Washington
492:Rock Creek
371:Basin size
325:47°39′36″N
308:Washington
243:116°43′0″W
240:47°06′53″N
178:DeSmet, ID
164:Washington
1147:whitefish
954:turbidity
920:Watershed
727:parallel
721:Fairfield
630:Nez Perce
590:Nez Perce
585:watershed
383:Discharge
186:Latah, WA
182:Tekoa, WA
134:Nez Perce
1389:Sccd.org
1346:Sccd.org
1316:Sccd.org
1177:See also
1155:species.
1103:vertebra
1058:blizzard
1050:Qualchan
1012:and the
968:and the
942:meanders
934:semiarid
891:alluvial
857:Exposed
842:Marshall
822:Rockford
698:farmland
613:meanders
573:Kootenai
145:Location
1091:Ice Age
1062:whites'
1054:cavalry
1040:History
950:erosion
938:Spokane
849:Geology
818:Plummer
786:Plummer
733:Spokane
713:Waverly
690:De Smet
666:Sanders
569:Benewah
561:Spokane
543:eastern
397:Spokane
300:Spokane
150:Country
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1143:sucker
1133:Fishes
1048:named
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883:basalt
859:Basalt
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826:Duncan
814:Worley
760:, and
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702:Tekoa
674:Idaho
668:, in
553:Idaho
283:Mouth
223:Idaho
168:Idaho
160:State
127:Latah
1861:ISBN
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