Sleepy Eye Creek

Sleepy Eye Creek is a 51.8-mile-long (83.4 km)[1] tributary of the Cottonwood River of Minnesota, the United States.[2] Via the Cottonwood River, its water flows to the Minnesota River and eventually the Mississippi River.

Sleepy Eye Creek
Location
CountryUnited States
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationMinnesota

Sleepy Eye Creek was named for Chief Sleepy Eye.[3]

See also

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed October 5, 2012
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sleepy Eye Creek
  3. Upham, Warren (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 72.



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