Sixteen Mile Creek

Sixteen Mile Creek or Sixteenmile Creek may refer to:

  • Sixteen Mile Creek (Montana), a tributary of the Missouri River in Montana in the United States
  • Sixteen Mile Creek (Ontario), which flows into Lake Ontario in Canada
  • Sixteenmile Creek (Ohio), which flows into Lake Erie in Ohio in the United States
  • Sixteenmile Creek (Florida), a tributary of the St. Johns River in Florida in the United States


Famous quotes containing the words sixteen mile, sixteen, mile and/or creek:

    “I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city,
    Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name.
    Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly,
    musical, self-sufficient,
    I see that the word of my city is that word from of old,
    Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb,
    Rich, hemm’d thick all around with sailships and steamships, an
    island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city,
    Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name.
    Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly,
    musical, self-sufficient,
    I see that the word of my city is that word from of old,
    Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb,
    Rich, hemm’d thick all around with sailships and steamships, an
    island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “smile
    As you find a rhythm
    Working you, slow mile by mile,
    Into your proper haunt
    Somewhere, well out, beyond . . .”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

    “The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
    —State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)