Shitepoke Creek

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

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| name = Shitepoke Creek

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| pushpin_map = USA Oregon

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| pushpin_map_caption= Location of the mouth of Shitepoke Creek in Oregon

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| subdivision_name1 = United States

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| subdivision_name2 = Oregon

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| subdivision_name4 = Lane

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| source1 = Cascade Range

| source1_location = near Dead Mountain, Willamette National Forest

| source1_coordinates= {{coord|43|47|43|N|122|22|02|W|display=inline}}{{cite web | work = Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) | publisher = United States Geological Survey | date = November 28, 1980 | url ={{Gnis3|1149407}} | title = Shitepoke Creek|accessdate=January 26, 2016}}

| source1_elevation = {{convert|2972|ft|abbr=on}}Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using GNIS source coordinates.

| mouth = Salmon Creek (Oregon)

| mouth_location = east of Oakridge

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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 {{convert|7|mi|km}} east of Oakridge. Its entire course lies within the Willamette National Forest.{{cite web|title=United States Topographic Map|publisher=United States Geological Survey|via=Acme Mapper|url=http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=43.778056,-122.36&z=12&t=T&marker0=43.778056,-122.36,Shitepoke%20Creek|accessdate=January 26, 2016}}

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.{{cite book|last=Monmonier|first=Mark|title=From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8DyZWTwkfF0C&pg=PA70|date=September 15, 2008|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-53464-0|page=70}} Merriam-Webster says that the word, a combination of shite and poke, refers to a heron's tendency to defecate when startled.{{cite web | url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shitepoke | title=shitepoke | publisher=Merriam-Webster | accessdate=26 January 2016}} 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".{{cite book|title=The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: Complete Text Reproduced Micrographically|year=1971|page=2791|volume=II|publisher=Oxford University Press}}