A federal place-naming panel approved a proposal Thursday to relabel “Halfbreed Creek” in Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s home state of North Dakota.
In a 10-3 vote, with five abstentions, the Board on Geographic Names’ Domestic Names Committee agreed to switch the little waterway’s name to Camp Cherith Creek.
“I commend the proponent, and I’ll say that [she] did a significant amount of outreach to a number of different groups,” said Michael Tischler, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist and chair of the Board on Geographic Names.
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Tischler added that “there were just not a lot of responses” to the renaming proposal prepared by Bismarck resident Valerie Barbie.
