Badger Creek (Des Moines River tributary)

Badger Creek is a creek in Madison, Webster and Humboldt counties, Iowa, in the United States.[1] It is a tributary of the Des Moines River.

Badger Creek was so named from a badger who fought a dog at the creek.[2]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Badger Creek (Des Moines River tributary)
  2. ^ History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa. Union Publishing Company. 1884. p. 714.