Lodgepole Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately 212 miles (341 km) long, in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado. The South Platte River is one of the two principal tributaries of the Platte River and itself a major river of the American West, located in the U A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government The State of Wyoming ( is a sparsely populated state in the western region of the United States. Nebraska ( is a state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and The State of Colorado ( or chiefly by nonresidents) is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. Lodgepole Creek drains the southeastern corner of Wyoming, the southern edge of the Nebraska Panhandle and a several small portions of northeastern Colorado. The Nebraska Panhandle is an area in the west of the state of Nebraska. As its name implies, Lodgepole Creek is a very small stream; for nearly all of its length, it flows through the semiarid High Plains. This article is about a geographic region in the United States The Lodgepole Creek valley has been a major transportation route for over 100 years; the line of the original transcontinental railroad, the Lincoln Highway/U.S. Highway 30 and Interstate 80 all run along the stream for much of its length. This article refers to a railroad built in the United States between Omaha and Sacramento completed in 1869 The Lincoln Highway was the first automobile road across America. US Route 30 is an east-west main route of the system of United States Numbered Highways, with the highway traveling across the northern tier of the country Interstate 80 (I-80 is the second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States (after I-90)
Description
Lodgepole Creek rises on the east slope of the Laramie Mountains of southeastern Wyoming, about 10 miles (16 km) east of Laramie, Wyoming. The Laramie Mountains are a range of moderately high peaks on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in the states of Wyoming and Colorado Laramie is a city in and the County seat of Albany County in the U The creek flows east, north of Cheyenne, Wyoming; it enters Nebraska just east of Pine Bluffs, Wyoming. Cheyenne ( /ʃaɪˈæn/ or /ʃaɪˈɛn/) is the capital of the U Pine Bluffs is a town in eastern Laramie County, Wyoming, United States. In Nebraska, it flows to the east past Kimball, Sidney and Chappell; at Chappell, Lodgepole Creek turns to the southeast and flows into Colorado. Kimball is a city in Kimball County, Nebraska, United States. Sidney is a city in Cheyenne County, Nebraska, United States. Chappell is a city in Deuel County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 983 at the 2000 census. The stream, by this point flowing south, empties into the South Platte River at Ovid, Colorado, 3 miles (5 km) south of the Nebraska/Colorado border. Ovid is a Statutory Town in Sedgwick County, Colorado, United States.
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