The first steam engine in the Charley Creek area, owned by Clive Bixby, being moved through the badlands from Armstrong ranch on Gumbo Flats to Bailey Fisher's on Charley Creek, 1910. (L-R) Ed Culwell, Bailey Fisher, Ed Kennedy, Chris Kaul with rock, Clive Bixby on engine and T.T. Armstrong in lead.
If you look at an old map of the Richland County area, you'll find a creek called the Elk Horn Creek but if you look at a present day map of the same area, that creek is called Charley Creek.
The first school in this section of the county was in 1902, District 17 on the Gumbo Flats.
The first 4-H club "The Charley Creek Jolly Bunch" was organized on the creek in 1927.
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