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Split Rock Creek State Park

Field	Value
name	Split Rock Creek State Park
photo	Split Rock Creek State Park in fog.jpg
map	USA Minnesota#USA
map_caption	Location of Split Rock Creek State Park in Minnesota
relief	1
location	Pipestone, Minnesota, United States
coordinates
area_acre	1303
elevation	1624 ft
established	1937
governing_body	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
embedded	Yes

Split Rock Creek State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, located in Ihlen, or just south of Pipestone.

The Works Progress Administration built a dam in 1938 to create a lake, which provided an opportunity for water recreation in an area of the state with few natural lakes. The dam was constructed of Sioux Quartzite, a hard red rock widely found in the area. A nearby bridge, Split Rock Creek Bridge, was also built by the WPA of Sioux quartzite in 1938. The bridge carries County Road 54 over the creek. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Minnesota Masonry-Arch Highway Bridges MPS.

Split Rock Creek

Split Rock Creek is a stream that flows for 55 miles from a farmers field near Ihlen, Rock County, Minnesota, to east of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. The native American name for the creek was Eminija. The creek enters South Dakota east of Sherman, South Dakota. West of Sherman it flows over a cement pad on 486th Avenue. It flows around Garretson and through Devil's Gulch. The creek then flows through Palisades State Park and then through McHardy Park in Brandon. East of Sioux Falls Pt finally flows into the Big Sioux River, which flows into the Missouri River, which flows into the Mississippi River.

References

(1980-01-11). "Split Rock Creek State Park". [[United States Geological Survey]].
"Split Rock Creek State Park".
(1989-09-22). ["Minnesota Masonry-Arch Highway Bridges"]({{NRHP url). [[Minnesota Historical Society]].
{{GNIS. 652403. Split Rock Creek
Richardson, Jeanne. "The Creek that thinks its a river".

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