Riceford 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
Minnesota.
The river flows over about from the town of
Mabel, Minnesota
Mabel is a city in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 780 at the 2010 census.
History
A post office called Mabel has been in operation since 1880. The city was named for the daughter of a railroad official.
Transpor ...
to the town of
Yucatan, Minnesota, where it flows into the
South Fork Root River.
The creek is named after
Minnesota Territory politician
Henry Mower Rice, who forded this creek in 1856.
See also
*
List of rivers of Minnesota
References
Rivers of Fillmore County, Minnesota
Rivers of Houston County, Minnesota
Rivers of Minnesota
Southern Minnesota trout streams
Driftless Area
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