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{{short description|Stream in Hickman and Maury County, Tennessee, U.S.}}
'''Dog Creek''' is a stream in [[Hickman County, Tennessee|Hickman]] and [[Maury County, Tennessee|Maury]] counties, [[Tennessee]], in the [[United States]].<ref>{{GNIS|1282589}}</ref> It is a tributary of [[Lick Creek (Duck River)|Lick Creek]].
Dog Creek was so named from an incident when an early settler killed a wolf (he called it a "dog wolf") that was preying on his farm animals.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Spence|first1=W. Jerome D.|last2=Spence|first2=David L.|title=A History of Hickman County, Tennessee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sIE7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA159|year=1900|publisher=Southern Historical Press|isbn=978-0-89308-242-0|page=159}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[List of rivers of Tennessee]]
==References==
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[[Category:Rivers of Hickman County, Tennessee]]
[[Category:Rivers of Maury County, Tennessee]]
[[Category:Rivers of Tennessee]]
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