Shitepoke Creek is a short tributary of Salmon Creek, which is a tributary of the Middle Fork Willamette River in Lane County, Oregon, in the United States. Arising between Dead Mountain and Eagle Butte in the Cascade Range, it flows south into the creek about 7 miles (11 km) east of Oakridge. Its entire course lies within the Willamette National Forest.[3]

Shitepoke Creek
Location of the mouth of Shitepoke Creek in Oregon
Location
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Lane
Physical characteristics
Source	Cascade Range
• location	near Dead Mountain, Willamette National Forest
• coordinates	43°47′43″N 122°22′02″W[1]
• elevation	2,972 ft (906 m)[2]
Mouth	Salmon Creek (Oregon)
• location	east of Oakridge
• coordinates	43°46′41″N 122°21′36″W[1]
• elevation	1,611 ft (491 m)[1]

Shitepoke is said by the author of From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame to refer to a heron's tendency to defecate while flying.[4] Merriam-Webster says that the word, a combination of shite and poke, refers to a heron's tendency to defecate when startled.[5] Noting that the word shite "is not now in decent use", The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) of 1971 defines shitepoke as "the small green heron of North America", Butorides virescens. The OED's usage example is: "gulls, shitepokes, cranes".[6]

See also

• List of rivers of Oregon

References

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