Bear Creek (Kinchafoonee Creek tributary)
river in Terrell County, Georgia, United States of America
Bear Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is a tributary to Kinchafoonee Creek. A variant name is "Lochochee Creek".
The name Bear Creek is an accurate preservation of the native Creek-language name Nokosi Hachi, meaning "bear creek".
“Bear Creek (Kinchafoonee Creek tributary)” enters the record as river in Terrell County, Georgia, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bear, Creek and Kinchafoonee can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Bear Creek (Kinchafoonee Creek tributary)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bear, Creek and Kinchafoonee provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q32835455. Authority coordinates are 31.908, -84.381. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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How to read it
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This entry incorporates text from “Bear Creek (Kinchafoonee Creek tributary)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.