Beaver Creek is a stream in Rock County, Minnesota and Minnehaha County, South Dakota.[1] It is a tributary of Split Rock Creek.

Beaver Creek was named from the fact early settlers saw beaver dams in the stream.[2]

Beaver Creek as it flows along the southern border of Beaver Creek Nature Area

See also

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Beaver Creek (Split Rock Creek tributary)
  2. ↑ Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 168.

43°33′31″N 96°35′13″W / 43.55861°N 96.58694°W / 43.55861; -96.58694



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