Beaver Creek (Yellow River tributary)
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Beaver Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.[1] It is a tributary to the Yellow River. The stream headwaters arise just southwest of the Marshfield municipal airport at 44°37′52″N 90°12′55″W / 44.63111°N 90.21528°W[1] at an elevation of 1320 feet.[2] The stream flows south-southeast passing under U.S. Route 10 and Wisconsin Highway 13 before turning to the southwest to enter the Yellow River approximately 3.5 miles south of its origin[3] at 44°35′03″N 90°11′32″W / 44.58417°N 90.19222°W and an elevation of 1152 feet.[1] Beaver Creek was so named for the beavers along its course.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Beaver Creek (Yellow River tributary)
- ↑ Marshfield, WI, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1979
- ↑ Lake Manakiki, WI, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1979
- ↑ Rudolph, Robert S. (1970). Wood County Place Names (PDF). The University of Wisconsin Press. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
