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Ashley Creek (Minnesota)

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Coordinates: 45°45′25″N 94°57′58″W / 45.7569094°N 94.9661336°W / 45.7569094; -94.9661336[3]
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Ashley Creek
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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 Center. It is part of the Mississippi River watershed.

Ashley Creek was named in the 1850s for Ossian Doolittle Ashley, a Boston stockbroker.[2]

See also

45°45′25″N 94°57′58″W / 45.7569094°N 94.9661336°W / 45.7569094; -94.9661336[3]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed November 29, 2012
  2. ^ Upham, Warren (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 522.
  3. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ashley Creek


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