Hemlock Creek is a
stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...
in the
U.S. state of
Wisconsin.
It is a tributary to the
Yellow River.
Hemlock trees
''Tsuga'' (, from Japanese (), the name of ''Tsuga sieboldii'') is a genus of conifers in the subfamily Abietoideae of Pinaceae, the pine family. The common name hemlock is derived from a perceived similarity in the smell of its crushed folia ...
along the creek's watercourse may account for the name.
References
Rivers of Wood County, Wisconsin
Rivers of Wisconsin
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