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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.
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.
The Flambeau Paper Company Office Building is located in Park Falls, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
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. Robert Corbett, a logging and lumbering ...
He was the son of Ah-mous (translated either as "The Little Bee" or "Thunder of Bees"), who was an influential leader of the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe. In spring of 1861, Chief Sky set up a hunting and fishing camp near the South Fork of the Flambeau River, within the present day Chequamegon National Forest, east of Park Falls, Wisconsin. Here, he ...
The Flambeau Mission Church, the first church in the county, was built around 1884. It served the Ojibwe, loggers and settlers. The first loggers and settlers came up the Chippewa River from the south, entering what would become Rusk County north of modern Holcombe, where the Flambeau River joins the Chippewa.
The Turtle-Flambeau Flowage was created in 1926 when the Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Company built a dam on the Flambeau River downstream from its confluence with the Turtle River. The dam flooded 16 natural lakes and formed an impoundment of approximately 14,000 acres (57 km 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]