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Medicine Creek
stream, Nebraska, United States
Medicine Creek, stream in southwestern Nebraska, U.S. It rises near Wellfleet and flows generally southeastward to enter the Republican River at Cambridge after a course of 72 miles (116 km). A flood-control dam on the river just north of Cambridge impounds Harry Strunk Lake, which has a state recreation area along its western shore.
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