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Paint Creek (Sevenmile Creek tributary)

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Overview from the Dillman Road bridge

Paint Creek is a stream in Preble County, Ohio, in the United States.[1] It is a tributary of Sevenmile Creek.

Paint Creek was named from deposits of ochre found there which Native Americans used for body painting.[2]

Paint Creek is dammed to form a reservoir, Lake Lakengren.

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  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Paint Creek (Sevenmile Creek tributary)
  2. ^ Lowry, Robert Eaton (1915). History of Preble County, Ohio: Her People, Industries and Institutions. B.F. Bowen. p. 124.