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9 unusual facts about Rock Creek


Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby

Anna was the daughter of farmers, who had moved from Philadelphia and settled in Southeastern Illinois, close to the what would become the village of Rock Creek.

Ashley National Forest

The entire north slope of the Uinta Mountains was transferred to the Wasatch National Forest, while Ashley National Forest received the Rock Creek and Duchesne River drainages.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

Chafer was born in Rock Creek, Ohio to Thomas and Lomira Chafer and was the second of three children.

Oak Grove, Alabama

It is not to be confused with the unincorporated town in Jefferson County west of Rock Creek which was hit by an F5 tornado on April 8, 1998 and an EF2 tornado on January 23, 2012.

Point Rock, New York

Point Rock was named for a point in a rock where point Rock Creek and Fish Creek meet.

Rock Creek, Illinois

Rock Creek, Hardin County, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Hardin County, Illinois

Rock Creek, Adams County, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Adams County, Illinois

Rock Creek, Ohio

Its local elementary school, Rock Creek Elementary, had 285 students beginning the 2004-2005 school year, and the school's mascot is the Roadrunner.

Rock Creek, Wisconsin

Located near Eau Claire the town has seen a great deal of recent suburban development in the corridor between the Chippewa River and Wis. 85.


Cariboo Gold Rush

One reason the Cariboo rush attracted fewer Americans than the original Fraser rush may have been the American Civil War, with many who had been around after the Fraser Gold Rush going home to take sides, or to the Fort Colville Gold Rush which was largely manned by men who had been on the Fraser or to other BC rushes such as those at Rock Creek and Big Bend.

Minnesota State Highway 70

Highway 70 serves as an east–west route between Mora, Brunswick, Rock Creek, and Grantsburg, WI.

Scouting in Ohio

Beaumont Scout Reservation is a full-service Scout Reservation with forests, fields, wetlands and lakes, sitting on 1,260 acres along the Grand River in Rock Creek, Ohio, approximately 40 miles east from downtown Cleveland, Ohio.


see also

Battle of Kelley Creek

Mike Daggett, or Shoshone Mike, was the chief of the small band and in the spring of 1910, he led his group of eleven off the Fort Hall Reservation at Rock Creek, Idaho.

Rock/Creek

They have two flagship stores, one in downtown Chattanooga and the other at Hamilton Place Mall, two paddling stores and an e-commerce site.

StumpJump 50k

The race was founded with the support of Rock/Creek, a local retailer, where Matt Sims worked as a retail store manager.