Beartrap Creek

Beartrap Creek is a stream in Ashland and Bayfield counties, Wisconsin, in the United States.[1]

Beartrap Creek was named from an incident when a settler caught a black bear in a trap.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Beartrap Creek
  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. 42.


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