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Plum Creek (Redwood County, Minnesota)
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Redwood County, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 16,815 people, 6,674 households, and 4,524 families residing in the county. The population density was 19 people per square mile . There were 7,230 housing units at an average density of 8 per square mile...
, is a stream
Stream
A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill , kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or...
in Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, near the city of Walnut Grove
Walnut Grove, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 599 people, 291 households, and 178 families residing in the city. The population density was 577.7 people per square mile . There were 341 housing units at an average density of 328.9 per square mile...
. It goes to the northwest from the town. It lends its name to a regional library network
Plum Creek Library System
The Plum Creek Library System is a network of libraries throughout southwestern Minnesota, United States. It serves 25 city and 8 school libraries in nine counties. Each library is locally controlled, but they cooperate through interlibrary loans of materials, and a bookmobile....
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History
It is known for being close to the homestead of the Ingalls family of Little House on the PrairieLittle House on the Prairie
Little House is a series of children's books by Laura Ingalls Wilder that was published originally between 1932 and 1943, with four additional books published posthumously, in 1962, 1971, 1974 and 2006.-History:...
fame, and features in the book On the Banks of Plum Creek
On the Banks of Plum Creek
On the Banks of Plum Creek is a children's book written in 1937 by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The fourth of nine books written in her Little House series, it is based on Laura's childhood at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota in late 19th Century....
.Plum Creek is often the site for 2011's series On the Banks of Plum Creek but it is staged the name Plum Creek but really is named Brillow Creek the series is shot in Michigan.