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Definition of South Platte
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
Literary usage of South Platte
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)
"CHAPTER III Sioux Village on the South Platte. A Pawnee Horse Raid. ... IT was
the intention of Williams to strike for *• the South Platte River, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The North Platte is formed by the union of several streams in the North Park,
Colorado, and the South Platte takes its rise in the South Park. ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1874)
"... following during the ensuing twelve monti;-: Arkansas Valley, 96 miles; Denver
4 Г.;.' Grande, 90; Golden & South Platte, 17; I'cover & South Park, 30; ..."
5. 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 (1874)
"Dr. Peale has allowed me to use the following section made by him near the South
Platte: Section of Cretaceous Уо. 1 near the South Platte Hirer. ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The South Platte rises in South Park; the Arkansas ... Of this amount over
one-third is in a solid block along the South Platte, at the northeast corner of ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The South Platte rises in South Park; the Arkansas in the mountains west of- ...
Of this amount over one-third is in a solid block along the South Platte, ..."
8. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1861)
"The distance over the former is 182, and over the latter 220, miles from the
upper ford of the South Platte. From within 30 miles of that point to within 40 ..."
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