Bogus Jim Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota.[1]

According to one tradition the creek has the name of Francis "Bogus Jim" Calabogus, a pioneer settler; another tradition maintains the creek was called "bogus" because it was dry.[2]

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bogus Jim Creek
  2. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 15.

44°07′37″N 103°28′30″W / 44.126808°N 103.474980°W / 44.126808; -103.474980