Eighteen Mile Creek is the name of several small rivers.
In Australia:
- Eighteen Mile Creek, Queensland, Australia.
In the United States:
- Eighteen Mile Creek (Niagara County), A small river in Niagara County, NY.
- Eighteen Mile Creek (Erie County), A small river in Erie County, NY.
- Eighteen Mile Creek, Within the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
- Eighteen Mile Creek, Caribou County, Idaho.
- Eighteen Mile Creek, South Carolina.
- Eighteen Mile Creek, West Virginia.
Famous quotes containing the words eighteen, mile and/or creek:
“I lived in Judæa eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Telephone poles were matchsticks, put there to be snapped off at a whim. Dogs trotting across the road were suddenly big trucks. Old ladies turned into moving—vans. Everything was too bright, but very funny and made for my delight. And about half a mile from my long liquid breakfast I turned carefully down a side street and parked, and sat beaming happily through the tannic fog for about an hour, remembering how witty we all had been, how handsome and talented ... [ellipsis in original]”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
“It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)