Beaver River (Lake Superior)

Beaver River
Beaver River
	The cascades and falls of the Beaver River near Beaver Bay, Minnesota.
	Mouth of the Beaver River
Native name	Gaa-giizhikensikaag-ziibi (Ojibwe)
Location
Country	United States
State	Minnesota
County	Lake County
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Cloquet Lake
• coordinates	47°23′32″N 91°28′26″W / 47.3921404°N 91.4737749°W
Mouth
• location	Silver Bay, Minnesota, Lake Superior
• coordinates	47°15′33″N 91°17′35″W / 47.2590891°N 91.2929435°W
Length	23.4-mile-long (37.7 km)
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	East Branch Beaver River
• right	Kit Creek, Big Thirty-Nine Creek

The Beaver River is a 23.4-mile-long (37.7 km)^[1] river in Lake County, Minnesota. It flows into Lake Superior.^[2]

Its name comes from the large number of beaver originally found in the area.^[3]

Habitat

Portions of Beaver River are designated trout streams with populations of brook, brown, and rainbow trout.^[4]^[5]

^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 7, 2012
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Beaver River
^ Fritzen, John (1974). Historic Sites and Place Names of Minnesota's North Shore. Duluth, MN: St. Louis County Historical Society. p. 16.
^ "Northern Minnesota Fishing Guide" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
^ "Northeast Minnesota Maps" (PDF). Minnesota DNR. Retrieved April 2, 2021.

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