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Definition of South Platte River
1. Noun. A tributary of the Platte River.
Group relationships: Centennial State, Co, Colorado, Cornhusker State, Ne, Nebraska
Generic synonyms: River
Lexicographical Neighbors of South Platte River
Literary usage of South Platte River
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1877)
"The source of the Middle or Main Fork of the South Platte River has its ...
From this point the main stream bears hereafter the name of South Platte River. ..."
2. My Sixty Years on the Plains, Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas Hamilton (1905)
"IT was the intention of Williams to strike for *• the South Platte River, ...
A few days' travel brought us to the South Platte River, and at a point ..."
3. Cases on the Law of Water Rights by Joseph Walter Bingham (1916)
"2 from fifteen to twenty feet accumulate in the South Platte river, by return and
... The ditches taking water from the South Platte river in district No. ..."
4. Mills' Irrigation Manual for Lawyers, Irrigation Officers, Engineers and by Jared Warner Mills (1907)
"1 shall consist of all lands in the state of Colorado irrigated by water taken
from that portion of the South Platte river between the mouth of the Cache la ..."
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