TNT Creek | |
Name Etymology: | For TNT bucked off by a pack mule near the creek |
Map Size: | 300 |
Pushpin Map: | USA Oregon |
Pushpin Map Size: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the mouth of TNT Creek in Oregon |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | United States |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | Oregon |
Subdivision Type4: | County |
Subdivision Name4: | Lane |
Source1 Location: | Willamette National Forest |
Source1 Coordinates: | 43.6378°N -122.2622°W[1] |
Source1 Elevation: | 4814feet[2] |
Mouth: | Hills Creek |
Mouth Coordinates: | 43.63°N -122.2806°W |
Mouth Elevation: | 2556feet |
TNT Creek is a small tributary of Hills Creek in Lane County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.[3] It enters the larger stream about 10.5miles above its confluence with the Middle Fork Willamette River at Hills Creek Reservoir.[3]
TNT Creek was named for an incident by a United States Forest Service ranger's mule that threw off a load of trinitrotoluene (TNT) by the creek.[4]