Birch Creek is a stream in
Menominee County, Michigan
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, in the
United States
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.
It is a tributary of
Springer Creek.
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The stream headwaters arise approximately 1.5 miles east of ]US Route 41
U.S. Route 41, also U.S. Highway 41 (US 41), is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs from Miami, Florida, to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Until 1949, the part in southern Florida, from Naples to Miami, ...
at [ and it flows generally southward past the community of Birch Creek. It enters Springer Creek approximately one-half mile from Green Bay][''Birch Creek, MI,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1963 (1977 rev.)] at .[
Birch Creek was named from groves of ]black birch Black birch is a common name for several trees, and may refer to:
* Asian black birch, the English name for '' Betula dahurica'', tree species native to eastern Asia
* Black birch, a common name for ''Betula lenta'', tree species native to eastern ...
near the stream.
See also
*List of rivers of Michigan
This list of Michigan rivers includes all streams designated rivers although some may be smaller than those streams designated creeks, runs, brooks, swales, cuts, bayous, outlets, inlets, drains and ditches. These terms are all in use in Michigan. ...
References
Rivers of Menominee County, Michigan
Rivers of Michigan
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