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Shitepoke Creek
Shitepoke Creek is located in Oregon
Shitepoke Creek
Location of the mouth of Shitepoke Creek in Oregon
Country United States
State Oregon
County Lane
Physical characteristics
Main source Cascade Range
near Dead Mountain, Willamette National Forest
2,972 ft (906 m)
43°47′43″N 122°22′02″W / 43.79528°N 122.36722°W / 43.79528; -122.36722
River mouth Salmon Creek (Oregon)
east of Oakridge
1,611 ft (491 m)
43°46′41″N 122°21′36″W / 43.77806°N 122.36000°W / 43.77806; -122.36000

Shitepoke Creek is a short tributary of Salmon Creek, which is a tributary of the Middle Fork Willamette River in Lane County, Oregon, in the United States. Arising between Dead Mountain and Eagle Butte in the Cascade Range, it flows south into the creek about 7 miles (11 km) east of Oakridge. Its entire course lies within the Willamette National Forest.

Noting that the word shite "is not now in decent use", The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) of 1971 defines shitepoke as "the small green heron of North America", Butorides virescens. The OED's usage example is: "gulls, shitepokes, cranes".

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