Plum Creek is a
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accessed October 5, 2012 stream near the city of
Walnut Grove, Minnesota
Walnut Grove is a city in Redwood County, Minnesota, Redwood County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 871 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. Another name formerly associated with the area is Walnut Station.
History
Walnut ...
. It passes to the northwest of the town, flowing northeasterly to the
Cottonwood River, with its waters then flowing to the
Minnesota River
The Minnesota River ( dak, Mnísota Wakpá) is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 332 miles (534 km) long, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It drains a watershed of in Minnesota and about in South Dakota and Iowa.
It ris ...
and eventually the
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it f ...
. Plum Creek lends its name to a
regional library network.
History
Plum Creek was so named on account of the
wild plum (''Prunus americana'') trees along its course. It was known to the native
Sioux
The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (; Dakota language, Dakota: Help:IPA, /otʃʰeːtʰi ʃakoːwĩ/) are groups of Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribes and First Nations in Canada, First Nations peoples in North America. The ...
as ''Kaŋ-ta-'o-ta'' ("plenty of plums").
It is known for being close to the homestead of the
Ingalls family
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Television series characters
The Ingalls family
The in-laws
Townsfolk
One-shot char ...
of ''
Little House on the Prairie
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'' fame, and features in the book ''
On the Banks of Plum Creek
''On the Banks of Plum Creek'' is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1937, the fourth of nine books in her ''Little House'' series. It is based on a few years of her childhood when the Ingalls ...
''. It is also mentioned in the sixth
Little House on the Prairie
The ''Little House on the Prairie'' books is a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder (b. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls). The stories are based on her childhood and adolescence in the Midwestern United States, American M ...
book.
See also
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List of rivers of Minnesota
Minnesota has 6,564 natural rivers and streams that cumulatively flow for . The Mississippi River begins its journey from its headwaters at Lake Itasca and crosses the Iowa border downstream. It is joined by the Minnesota River at Fort Snellin ...
*
List of longest streams of Minnesota
Out of the 6,564 streams that flow through the U.S. State of Minnesota, there are 114 streams that are at least 30 miles long. The second longest river in the United States, the Mississippi River, originates in Minnesota before flowing south t ...
References
External links
Frontier Girl Trail - Plum Creek
Rivers of Minnesota
Rivers of Murray County, Minnesota
Rivers of Redwood County, Minnesota
Tributaries of the Mississippi River
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