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Nine Mile Creek (Minnesota River tributary)

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Nine Mile Creek is a stream in Hennepin County, Minnesota, in the United States. It is a tributary of the Minnesota River. Nine Mile Creek was named from its distance, nine miles (14 km) southwest of Fort Snelling where it crosses the (Old) Shakopee Road.

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