BEAVER PLACE NAMES 
Beaver Harbor, 2 
Beaverhead County 
Beaver Head River 
Beaver Head Rocks 
Beaver Hill 
Beaverhill 
Beaverhill Lake 
Beaver Island, 2 
Beaver Kill 
Beaver Meadows 
Beaver Mouth 
Beaver Pond 
Beaverpond, 2 
Beaver River, 10 
Beaver River Corner 
Beaver River Range 
Beaver Run 
Beaver Springs 
21 
Beaverkill Beaver Tail Point 
Beaver Lake, 7 Beaverton, 5 
Beaverlick Beavertown 
Beaver Lick Mountains Beaver Valley 
Beaver Lodge Mountains Beaverville 
Beaver Meadow 
A total of forty-four different names, which would be 
greater if I counted separately such names as Beaverdam and 
Beaver Dam, which are really the same, and one hundred 
and forty places. These names are scattered all over the 
United States and Canada, and show of themselves how 
widely distributed the beaver must have been in the past. 
The list is doubtless incomplete, for in ‘‘A Gazetteer of 
Colorado,” published by the United States Geological 
Survey in 1906, I find fourteen Beaver Creeks, two Beavers 
(settlements), Beaver Ridge, Beaver Brook (stream), 
Beaver Brook (station), these last two in different counties, 
Beaver Creek (postoffice), Beaverdam Creek, Beaver 
Station, Little Beaver Creek, North Beaver Creek, and I 
know of a Big Beaver Creek and a Beaver Lake in this 
state. No doubt the other western states are equally well 
supplied with beaver place-names. 
In England there are various beaver place-names, such 
as Beverley, Bevercoates, Beversbrooks, Beverstone, Beaver- 
bourne, Beaver Island, Beverege, and Beverley Brook. 
In my old home, ten miles out from Boston, is a Beaver 
Brook, where I used to go fishing when a boy, and a Beaver 
Brook Station on the railroad. 
