Ah the Beaver Dam River, best known as a victim of numerous aggressive engineering projects, undertaken in MOCKING OBLITERATION of the basis for its name.

In downtown Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, on August 19th, 2021, the Beaver Dam River as viewed from the east side of Beaver Street.

 

The Beaver Dam River flows to the Crawfish River, which flows to the Rock River, which flows to the Mississippi River.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Beaver Dam (2120707)

• Beaver Dam River (2157692)

• Dodge (county) (1002337)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• artificial water channels (300133792)

• central business districts (300000868)

• rapids (300008739)

• riprap (300006158)

• riverine landscapes (300435110)

• rivers (300008707)

• summer (season) (300133099)

• urban landscapes (300132447)

 

Wikidata items:

• 19 August 2021 (Q69306149)

• August 19 (Q2829)

• August 2021 (Q61313033)

• Beaver Dam River (Q4878064)

• flood wall (Q5460082)

• Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI Combined Statistical Area (Q110495108)

• Mississippi River drainage basin (Q2887546)

• river bend (Q15727526)

• river engineering (Q1187134)

• Rock River drainage basin (Q106915772)

• Southeastern Wisconsin Savannah and Till Plain (Q110541485)

• Southeastern Wisconsin Till Plains (Q60752501)

• stream channelization (Q42296746)

• Treaty with the Winnebago (Q108203604)

• Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition (Q7898792)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Rivers—Wisconsin (sh85114424)

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