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The Flambeau River is a tributary of the Chippewa River in northern Wisconsin, United States. The Chippewa is in turn a tributary of the upper Mississippi River . The Flambeau drains an area of 1,860 square miles (4,800 km 2 ) [ 1 ] and descends from an elevation of approximately 1,570 feet (480 m) to 1,060 feet (320 m) above sea level.
Flambeau River State Forest is a 90,147 acre (364 km 2) unit of the Wisconsin state park system. The North and South Forks of the Flambeau River join within the park, providing over 75 miles (121 km) of mostly undeveloped river.
Park Falls is a city in Price County, Wisconsin, United States.The population was 2,410 at the 2020 census, down from 2,462 at 2010. [4] Located in the woods of north central Wisconsin, primarily the Chequamegon National Forest, Park Falls is a small community divided by the North Fork of the Flambeau River, a popular destination for fishing, canoeing and whitewater rafting.
Flambeau River State Forest, Winter: Look for white and black spruce, red and white pine, and balsam fir at this forest in Sawyer and Rusk counties just south of the CNNF. W1613 County Road W ...
The Ojibwe who travelled the Flambeau River called the area that would become Ladysmith Gakaabikijiwanan ("of cliffed rapids").. The city was founded in 1885 at the intersection of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (Soo Line) with the Flambeau River, initially named Flambeau Falls.
Flambeau River is a waterway on the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. It has a broad, basin-shaped valley, [ 1 ] and terminates as a tributary to Safety Sound . Its name is first recorded by Edward Chester Barnard of the United States Geological Survey (1900). [ 2 ]
The Flambeau is in turn a tributary of the Chippewa River. [2] Swamp Creek is the largest of 23 streams which flow into the Flambeau River, and one of a few which have a dam. The other remaining tributaries of the Flambeau River are fairly small, but many support trout populations. [3]
The Round Lake Logging Dam is a historic dam on the south fork of the Flambeau River eighteen miles east of Fifield, Wisconsin, United States, where the river flows out of Round Lake. [1] This earth and timber dam was originally built around 1880 to help lumber companies drive logs down the Flambeau River to sawmills around Eau Claire and ...