“American Creek”

Noted but not named by Lewis & Clark, kit was called Beaver Creek in 1857 by the Nobles Trail which crossed it 5 miles upstream on a beaver dam. Called Cedar Island Creek on July 1, 1863 when used as S boundary of Crow Creek Reserve it became American Creek in the 1868 survey when a notorious road house on the Ft. Randall-Ft. Sully road was the crossing.

Brule County, north edge of Chamberlain on Hwy 47 just north of American Creek