Beaver is an

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located in the town of

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, Marinette County,

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, United States. Beaver is located along U.S. Route 141 north-northeast of

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Geography

Beaver is located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 141 and County Highway P,''Crivitz Quadrangle Wisconsin–Marinette Co., 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)''. 1973. Map, 1:24,000. Reston, VA: U. S. Geological Survey. at an elevation of . It is located along the

Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad The Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad is a Class III shortline railroad that operates of track in Northeastern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Its main line runs from Rockland, Michigan, to Green Bay, Wisconsin, and it also own ...

. It is connected by road to

to the south and

Crivitz Crivitz is a town in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated 18 km east of Schwerin. The founder of the town Crivitz, Wisconsin named it after his hometown Crivitz. It has a friendship li ...

to the north. North Branch Beaver Creek flows north of Beaver, and South Branch Beaver Creek flows south of it. The two creeks join east of Beaver to form Beaver Creek, a tributary of the

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Name

Beaver was originally named ''Armstrong Dam'' in honor of Ferdinand Amesley "Pinochle" Armstrong (1834–1913), who settled there in the 1870s. Armstrong built a sawmill there and had a large residence on a estate. The community was renamed ''Beaver'' after Beaver Creek around 1884, when the post office was established.

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