Jacks Defeat Creek is a stream in

Monroe County, Indiana Monroe County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. In 1910 the US Census Bureau calculated the nation's mean population center to lie in Monroe County. The population was 137,974 at the 2010 United States Census. The county seat is Bloomin ...

, in the

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. It is a tributary of

Beanblossom Creek Beanblossom Creek is a stream in Monroe and Brown counties, Indiana, in the United States. The creek drains roughly 91.97 square miles into the two counties of south central Indiana. History Beanblossom Creek was named for a pioneer named Beanbl ...

. Jacks Defeat Creek was so named from an incident when two men, Jack Storm and Jack Ketcham were crossing the creek on horseback and both became stuck in the mud. An alternative for the name, is that it is an English bastardization of the name of the first settler along the creek
Jacque LaFitte.
The French had presence in Vincennes, Kaskaskia and Detroit with land travel across Indiana. The alternative name for the creek, if correct, fits with the presence of the French briefly in the area after Vincennes was founded in the 1730s until the French were driven out in the French and Indian War.

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Rivers of Monroe County, Indiana Rivers of Indiana {{Indiana-river-stub

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