Boxelder Creek (Cheyenne River tributary)

The creek near Owanka in Pennington County.

Boxelder Creek is a stream in Pennington, Meade and Lawrence counties, South Dakota, in the United States.[1] It is a tributary of the Cheyenne River.

Boxelder Creek was named for the box elder growing along its banks.[2]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Boxelder Creek (Cheyenne River tributary)
  2. ^ Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 46.