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Big Harts Creek originates in Logan County. Its largest tributaries are
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395:(hart) in the vicinity. Richard Elkins was the first permanent settler of Harts Creek, arriving in 1807 or 1815. Elkins lived at the mouth of Harts Creek in the present-day town of
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