| 词条 | Cripple Creek (Colorado) |
| 释义 |
| name = Cripple Creek[1] | image = | image_alt = | image_caption = | map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | source1_location = | source1_coordinates= | mouth_location = Confluence with Fourmile Creek | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|38.6664|N|105.2286|W|display=inline,title}} | progression = Fourmile Creek—Arkansas—Mississippi | length = | source1_elevation = | mouth_elevation = {{convert|6845|ft|m|abbr=on}} | discharge1_avg = | basin_size = | river_system = | tributaries_left = | tributaries_right = }}Cripple Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Colorado.[2] Cripple Creek was named for the fact livestock frequently became injured crossing the stream.[3] It passes through the city limits of Cripple Creek, Colorado, although portions of the original creekbed are no longer visible due to construction of casinos and parking lots. It receives the outflow of the Roosevelt Tunnel, a drainage tunnel that lowered the water table by 1,500 feet throughout the Cripple Creek gold mining district.[4] See also
References1. ^{{cite gnis|id= 191263 |name=Cripple Creek|accessdate= 2017-05-28}} {{Colorado-river-stub}}2. ^{{GNIS|191263}} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Dawson|first=John Frank|title=Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051116740;view=1up;seq=22|publisher=The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co.|location=Denver, CO|page=16}} 4. ^{{cite news|last1=Howard|first1=Malcolm|url=https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/they-got-the-gold-mine/Content?oid=1121278|accessdate=28 May 2017|publisher=The Colorado Springs Independent|date=6 Nov 2003|title=They got the Gold Mine ...}} 2 : Rivers of Teller County, Colorado|Rivers of Colorado |
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