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United States Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System gives about 80 returns for streams with this name; the number gets up toward 200 when place names are part of the argument. Certain of these may refer to:

• Battles
  • Battle of Fishing Creek, a Revolutionary War battle
  • Battle of Fishing Creek, the Confederate name for the Battle of Mill Springs
• Bodies of water
  • Fishing Creek (Cumberland River), a minor tributary of the Cumberland River, now Lake Cumberland in Pulaski County, Kentucky, which gives its name to the Civil War battle.
  • In Pennsylvania:
    • Fishing Creek (Bald Eagle Creek)
    • Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)
  • Fishing Creek Lake in Fort Lawn, South Carolina
• Places
  • Fishing Creek Township, Pennsylvania

Source

• Return from the United States Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System