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Buffalo Creek is an 84.3-mile-long (135.7 km) river in central Minnesota. It is a tributary of the South Fork of the Crow River, which is a tributary of the Mississippi River.

Buffalo Creek was so named from the fact buffalo bones were found there by pioneer settlers.

See also

• List of rivers of Minnesota

44°51′16″N 93°59′52″W / 44.8544067°N 93.9977485°W / 44.8544067; -93.9977485

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed November 29, 2012
2. Upham, Warren (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 319.
3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Buffalo Creek

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• USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Minnesota (1974)

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