Drakes Creek is a stream in

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, in the

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. It is a tributary of the

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. Drakes Creek, as measured at Alvaton, has a mean annual discharge of 768 cubic feet per second. Drakes Creek was named for a white pioneer named Drake who narrowly escaped with his life an attack by Indians. The

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community of

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, attempted a settlement along the creek, some 16 miles from their main village, in 1817, but the effort was abandoned in 1829.

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