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:
“For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?”
—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)