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Big Swan Creek

Coordinates: 35°46′12″N 87°24′40″W / 35.770068°N 87.411124°W / 35.770068; -87.411124
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Big Swan Creek is a stream in Hickman, Lewis and Lawrence counties, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Variant names are Swan Creek and West Fork Swan Creek.[1] Big Swan Creek is a tributary of the Duck River.

The creek was named from an incident when hunters killed a swan at the creek before 1800.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Big Swan Creek
  2. ^ Spence, W. Jerome D.; Spence, David L. (1900). A History of Hickman County, Tennessee. Southern Historical Press. p. 318. ISBN 978-0-89308-242-0.

35°46′12″N 87°24′40″W / 35.770068°N 87.411124°W / 35.770068; -87.411124