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Barnes Creek (Wisconsin) Barnes Creek is a navigable stream located in the village of Pleasant Prairie in southeastern Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. It flows near Wisconsin Highway 165 and crosses beneath Wisconsin Highway 32 (Sheridan Road) which flows eastw ...
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Barnes Creek is a small stream that flows in the
U.S. state
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of
Washington
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* Washington (state), United States
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from the base of
Mount Storm King and
Aurora Ridge into
Lake Crescent
Lake Crescent is a deep lake located entirely within Olympic National Park in Clallam County, Washington, United States, approximately west of Port Angeles on U.S. Route 101 and nearby to the small community of Piedmont. At an official maxim ...
. Barnes Creek is also fed by
Marymere Falls. Barnes Creek sustains the
spawning
Spawn is the eggs and sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals. As a verb, ''to spawn'' refers to the process of releasing the eggs and sperm, and the act of both sexes is called spawning. Most aquatic animals, except for aquati ...
habitat for the endemic
Crescenti cutthroat trout
The Crescenti cutthroat trout or the Lake Crescent cutthroat trout is a North American freshwater fish, a local form (zoology), form (f. loc.) of the coastal cutthroat trout (''Oncorhynchus clarkii clarkii'') isolated in Lake Crescent in Washingt ...
. It flows onto
Barnes Point, an ancient landslide delta, and into
Lake Crescent
Lake Crescent is a deep lake located entirely within Olympic National Park in Clallam County, Washington, United States, approximately west of Port Angeles on U.S. Route 101 and nearby to the small community of Piedmont. At an official maxim ...
.
Barnes Creek and Barnes Point take their name from Paul Barnes, who settled at Barnes Point in 1890.
References
Rivers of Clallam County, Washington
Rivers of Washington (state)
Landforms of Olympic National Park
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