Negro Creek

Note: U.S. Department of the Interior Secretarial Order 3404 dated November 19, 2021 has declared "Squaw" a derogatory term and is implementing procedures to change the name. Details are at U.S. Board on Geographic Names. See also the monthly minutes and review lists and Renaming offensive placenames.

Negro Creek passes through Iveson Ranch, crosses Highway 34 and descends into Hualapai flat.

At one time, Negro Creek was likely McNamara Creek. In 1996, Ray. M. Smith states that in the 1881 map, McNamara Creek was downgraded from a river to a creek and that McNamara Creek is probably now Donnelly Creek. An enigmatic footnote states that probably Donnelly Creek was named after an Army Captain who was at Fort McGarry who disappeared with his patrol group and that they were never found. Review of military and newspaper records has found no mention of this.

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• GNIS
  • Negro Creek
    • Alternate Name: A perjorative word, "Original township survey plats, published in the 1800's. 1913" Probably T36 R22.
    • Alternate Name: "McNamara Creek" Citation "'Nevada': 1881, scale 1 inch=24 miles. A photocopy with no additional information available, Nevada Historical Society document."
      • See 1863 DeGroot's map of Nevada (David Rumsey)
      • See California and Nevada, 1881 Map, Gibbs.
      • See 1893 Rand McNally map
      • McNamara could be a misreading of McNamey, who was a companion of Fredonyer, see Ladden Cone and Mount Observation.
  • Negro Creek Reservoir
    • Alternate Name: A perjorative word, "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Dams and Reservoirs List, Washington, DC. 17-Feb-1981. A listing of impounded bodies of water and associated information"
    • The Latitude and longitude of Negro Creek Reservoir (40.9482323, -119.3876884)is very close to Iveson Reservoir (40.9485593, -119.3910654). Iveson Reservoir is what appears on recent topo maps
  • Negro Creek Ranch
    • Very close to Iveson Ranch GNIS entry.
• "Negro Creek" appears in the 1909-1910 Section 34, T37 R22
• "Middle Branch of Negro Creek" appears in the 1894 Section 11-14, T37 R22
• Washoe County, Nevada 1936 Tax List Page 016 for Negro Creek
  • Barker, Carey, Bruce, Clark, Codd, Frizzell, Gerlach, Gregory, Hutchinson, Iveson, King, Melody, Patterson, Schmitt, Turnbow
• "Negro Creek" appears in the 1894 Section 28, T36 R22 Earliest original reference
• "Negro Creek" appears in T36 R33
• Appears in T35 R23 1913