Badger Creek (Houston County, Minnesota)

Badger Creek is a stream in Houston County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is a tributary of the South Fork Root River, which it meets east of Houston, Minnesota.^[1] Badger Creek was named for the badgers once common in the area.^[2]

Badger Creek
Mouth of Badger Creek
Location
Country	United States
State	Minnesota
County	Houston County
Physical characteristics
Source
• coordinates	43.6602778°N 91.5119444°W / 43.6602778; -91.5119444
Mouth
• coordinates	43.7374667°N 91.5551426°W / 43.7374667; -91.5551426
Basin features
River system	South Fork Root River
Tributaries
• right	Swede Bottom Creek

Habitat

According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the following fish species are present in Badger Creek: Brown trout, brook trout, white sucker, creek chub, southern redbelly dace, northern redbelly dace, blacknose dace, longnose dace, bluntnose minnow, fathead minnow, common shiner, bigmouth shiner, central stoneroller, black bullhead, burbot, green sunfish, orange spotted sunfish, Johnny darter, fantail darter, central mudminnow, and brook stickleback. Habitat improvement was completed in 1970 in the upper reaches of the Badger Crek.^[3]

See also

• List of rivers of Minnesota