Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Ladder Creek is a 230-mile-long (370 km) stream that flows from a source in Cheyenne County, Colorado to a confluence with the Smoky Hill River in Logan County, Kansas.Ladder Creek, also known locally as Beaver Creek, was named by a surveying party "who found a ladder imbedded in the grass by the creek, almost hidden. When they tried to pull it out, it broke to pieces. It was a great mystery what use a ladder could be to any one out there. The rounds or steps had been tied to the sides with rawhide. There were notches around the steps and also around the side poles. This was such an important find that the surveying crew called the stream Ladder Creek." ~The Leoti Standard, December 15, 1932. }
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- Ladder_Creek abstract "Ladder Creek is a 230-mile-long (370 km) stream that flows from a source in Cheyenne County, Colorado to a confluence with the Smoky Hill River in Logan County, Kansas.Ladder Creek, also known locally as Beaver Creek, was named by a surveying party "who found a ladder imbedded in the grass by the creek, almost hidden. When they tried to pull it out, it broke to pieces. It was a great mystery what use a ladder could be to any one out there. The rounds or steps had been tied to the sides with rawhide. There were notches around the steps and also around the side poles. This was such an important find that the surveying crew called the stream Ladder Creek." ~The Leoti Standard, December 15, 1932".