Logan Creek Dredge

Logan Creek Dredge is a canal located in northeastern Nebraska, United States,[1] that roughly follows the natural course of the Logan Creek, but without the many meanders. Some water still flows through much of course of the former creek (and its many meanders). The former course of the creek is referred to as the Old Channel Logan Creek.[3][4]

Logan Creek Dredge
Logan Creek, Logan Creek Ditch, New Channel Logan Creek[1]
Location of the mouth of Logan Creek in Nebraska
Location of the mouth of Logan Creek in Nebraska
EtymologyLogan Fontenelle
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNebraska
CountiesCedar, Dixon, Thurston, Cuming, Burt, Dodge, Wayne
Physical characteristics
MouthElkhorn River
Discharge 
 • locationnear Uehling
 • average237 cu ft/s (6.7 m3/s)[2]
Basin features
ProgressionElkhorn–Platte–Missouri–Mississippi

Course

The Logan Creek Dredge rises southeastern Cedar County at the confluence of Middle Logan Creek[5] and Perrin Creek,[6] northeast of Laurel. It then flows southeast, passing through or adjacent to the towns of Concord, Wakefield, Pender, Bancroft, Lyons, Oakland, Uehling and Winside. The canal empties into the Elkhorn River in eastern Dodge County, just east of Winslow.[7][1]

Name

The original Logan Creek was named after Logan Fontenelle, a chief of the Omaha tribe, who was killed by Oglala Sioux in 1855.[8][9]

History
Logan Creek site historical marker, December 2015

Logan Creek Site

Logan Creek Site is located at Marker 151 on U.S. Route 77, between Uehling and Oakland in Burt County. It is managed by the Nebraska State Historical Society and was entered on the National Register of Historic Places.[9]

First European settlers

The Aaron Arlington family was in 1857 the first to settle near the present Oakland, which was named after John Oak in 1863.[9]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Logan Creek
  2. "USGS Surface Water data for Nebraska: USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics".
  3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Old Channel Logan Creek
  4. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Old Channel Logan Creek
  5. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Middle Logan Creek
  6. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Perrin Creek
  7. Nebraska Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 4th ed., 2010, pp. 39-41 and 54-55 ISBN 0899333281
  8. Buss, William Henry; Osterman, Thomas T. (1921). History of Dodge and Washington Counties, Nebraska, and Their People. American Historical Society. p. 55.
  9. "Nebraska Historical Marker: The Logan Creek Site". e-nebraskahistory.org. History Nebraska (formerly Nebraska State Historical Society). 9 Jan 2018. Retrieved 4 Feb 2020.

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