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Indian Creek is a major stream in the southern Cascade Range and northern Sierra Nevada of Plumas County, California and is part of the Feather River system. The creek is 47 miles (76 km) long, [ 1 ] flowing through a series of small towns and farming valleys in a rural, mountainous area.
Indian Falls is located at (40.050816, -120.979897). [4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km 2), all of it land. It was named after a set of waterfalls on Indian Creek.
The Anacostia Tributary Trail System (ATTS) is a unified and signed system of stream valley trails joining trails along the Anacostia tributaries of Northwest Branch, Northeast Branch, Indian Creek and Paint Branch with a trail along the Anacostia River, set aside and maintained by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Turn left on Huskins Branch Rd. and go 1.2 miles (1.9 km) to a small parking area located before the bridge that crosses Toms Creek. From the Parking lot, follow the moderate-difficulty 0.4-mile (0.64 km) trail to a short, moderately steep climb and scramble down to the base of the falls.
The trail now extends a full 2 miles from the pavilion on Brush Creek Road, past Brush Creek Falls and onward to White Oak Falls. "That's a 4-mile hike and it's a good, healthy hike," Archer said.
Paint Branch is a 17.0-mile-long (27.4 km) tributary [1] stream of the Anacostia River that flows Southeastwards through Montgomery County and Prince George's County, Maryland. Specifically, its primary tributary is of the Northeast Branch , which flows to the Anacostia River, Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay .
The island of Indian Creek was said to have been created in the 1900s, due to excavation of drainage for Biscayne Bay and was an uninhabited and underdeveloped mangrove forest until 1928, when the country club and housing lots were established after a group of Midwestern businessmen bought the island as a real estate venture. [6]
The "forks of Indian Creek" describes the juncture of the main stream of Indian Creek and the South Fork of Indian Creek, [6] which converge in the village of Flippin, Kentucky. The origin of the name, “Indian Creek,” has not been directly documented, but is believed to have derived from Native American/Indigenous campsites in the area.