Ashley Creek is a 28.3-mile-long (45.5 km)[1] tributary of the Sauk River in central Minnesota, United States, joining the Sauk just north of Sauk Centre. It is part of the Mississippi River watershed.
| Ashley Creek | |
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| Country | United States |
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| • location | Minnesota |
Ashley Creek was named in the 1850s for Ossian Doolittle Ashley, a Boston stockbroker.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed November 29, 2012
- ^ Upham, Warren (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 522.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ashley Creek
- Minnesota Watersheds
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Minnesota (1974)
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