Bad Axe River
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The Bad Axe River is a Script error: No such module "convert".[1] tributary of the Mississippi River in southwestern Wisconsin in the United States. "Bad axe" is a translation from the French, "la mauvaise hache", but the origin of the name is unknown.[2][3] The river's mouth at the Mississippi was the site of the Battle of Bad Axe, an 1832 U.S. Army massacre of Sauk and Meskwaki people at the end of the Black Hawk War.
Course
The Bad Axe River flows for its entire length in western Vernon County, and for most of its length as two streams, the North Fork Bad Axe River and the South Fork Bad Axe River. The North Fork rises at the town of Westby and flows generally southwestwardly for Script error: No such module "convert"..[1] The South Fork rises about Script error: No such module "convert". south of Viroqua and flows westwardly for Script error: No such module "convert"..[1] The main stem of the Bad Axe flows for less than Script error: No such module "convert". westward from the convergence of the two forks to its confluence with the Mississippi, about Script error: No such module "convert". south of Genoa.
References
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- ↑ a b c U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Template:Webarchive, accessed May 13, 2011
- ↑ Kellogg, Louise Phelps. "Derivation of County Names" in Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for 1909, pages 219-231.
- ↑ Butterfield, History of Vernon County (Springfield, 1884), p. 132.
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See also
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