Fifteenmile Creek is a

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of East Deep Creek, in

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and

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. Fifteenmile Creek has its source at an elevation of 10,280 feet / 3,133 meters, on the west slope of Red Mountain in the

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and in the

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at . It flows north northwest to its confluence with an unnamed stream, at an elevation of 6,025 feet / 1,836 meters, 0.75 miles north of

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. There the confluence forms East Deep Creek, ten and a half miles south southeast of

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.GNIS location and description of the confluence of the mouth of Fifteen Mile Creek with the unnamed creek at the head of East Deep Creek is in error. The one referenced here near Goshute is taken from the Georgetta Ranch topographical map.

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