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Little Dry Creek (Arapahoe County, Colorado)

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that runs parallel to it. The creek flows into South Platte just south of West Dartmouth Avenue approximately two tenths of a mile west of its intersection with Santa Fe Drive which is
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Elma Dill Russell Spencer, Green Russell and Gold, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966, 57
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U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data.
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The mouth of the creek is noted as the location of the first significant
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and his brothers discovered a placer gold deposit that yielded about 20
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discovery in present-day Colorado. In the first week of July 1858,
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The Little Dry Creek Trail intersects the Highline Canal Trail in
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39°35′27″N 104°52′55″W / 39.59083°N 104.88194°W / 39.59083; -104.88194
Mouth
South Platte
39°39′34.87″N 105°00′9.64″W / 39.6596861°N 105.0026778°W / 39.6596861; -105.0026778
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South Platte River
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