Dead Indian Creek is a tributary of South Fork Little Butte Creek in Jackson County, in the

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. It flows generally north through the

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in the

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east of Medford. The creek begins at above sea level near

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and enters the South Fork at Camp Latgawa. The South Fork flows northwest to meet the North Fork near Lake Creek; combined they form

Little Butte Creek Little Butte Creek is a tributary of the Rogue River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Its drainage basin consists of approximately of Jackson County and another of Klamath County. Its two forks, the North Fork and the South Fork, both begin h ...

, a tributary of the Rogue River. Dead Indian Creek was so named in the 1850s when two

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died near its banks. According to ''

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'', Dead Indian Mountain and Dead Indian Memorial Road are also named after the same incident in which two settlers found two dead Native Americans in deserted dwellings near the creek. The road, originally named "Dead Indian Road" but renamed to avoid being interpreted as denigrating, eventually extended from Ashland, past the mountain and the creek to

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