page_title: Dry Creek (South Australia)
section_title: Notes
hierarchical_section_title: Dry Creek (South Australia) / Notes
caption_attribution_description: English: Dry Creek drain, facing southeast towards Port Wakefield Road bridge Sealed creek-side cycle path from Globe Derby Park to Mawson Lakes is shown on the left
context_page_description: Dry Creek or Dry Creek Drain is a seasonal stream in South Australia which passes through the Adelaide suburbs of Modbury, Walkley Heights and Pooraka. The nearby suburb of Dry Creek and Dry Creek railway station are named after the stream.
context_section_description: Whitworth (1866) p. 69
  Rob Amery (March 2009). "Weeding Out Spurious Etymologies: Toponyms On The Adelaide Plains".  In Luise Hercus; Flavia Hodges; Jane Simpson (eds.). The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia (PDF). ANU Press. p. 165-180. ISBN 9781921536571. Yatala most likely derives from yertalla 'water running by the side of a river; inundation; cascade'. As Manning (1986:238) observes 'in winter when water flowed from the hills, over the plains, the Dry Creek area became a morass'.
  Lewis (1985) pp. 174–175
  "Dry Creek River Trails | Dry Creek Linear Park | Walking SA". Walking SA. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
caption: Dry Creek drain (which forms the border of the suburbs of Dry Creek and Globe Derby Park) shown facing south east in late spring
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