Piceance Creek is a 57.9-mile-long (93.2 km)[2] tributary of the White River in Garfield and Rio Blanco counties in Colorado, United States.[1] The name likely derives from the Shoshoni word /piasonittsi/ meaning “tall grass” (/pia-/ ‘big’ and /soni-/ ‘grass’).[3]
| Piceance Creek[1] | |
|---|---|
 Piceance Creek viewed from a bridge on County Road 22, June 2021 | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • coordinates | 39°47′27″N 107°52′36″W / 39.79083°N 107.87667°W |
| Mouth | |
• location | Confluence with White River |
• coordinates | 40°05′24″N 108°14′42″W / 40.09000°N 108.24500°W |
• elevation | 5,702 ft (1,738 m) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | White—Green—Colorado |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Piceance Creek
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 18, 2011
- ^ CASTANEDA, TERRI (November 2006). "Native American Placenames of the United States:Native American Placenames of the United States". The Public Historian. 28 (4): 100–102. doi:10.1525/tph.2006.28.4.100. ISSN 0272-3433.
External links edit
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