Welcome to Beaver Brook ...

Beaver Brook is located in Washburn County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Beaver Brook, you might consider that their post office opened in 1917.

A typical abbreviation for Beaver Brook: Beaver Brk.

Beaver Brook is 1,300 feet [396 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Beaver Brook lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Beaver Brook: 715 & 534<3>

Communities Also Named Beaver Brook ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 8 communities that are also named Beaver Brook - they are located in Delaware, Massachusetts (3), New Brunswick, New York, Nova Scotia and Pennsylvania.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Beaver Brook.

Communities near Beaver Brook ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Beaver Brook.

• Rice Lake
  (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Rice Lake is located in Barron County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rice Lake
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,498 people
• Spooner
  (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Spooner is located in Washburn County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spooner
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,553 people
• Cumberland
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Cumberland is located in Barron County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumberland
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,097 people
• Shell Lake
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Shell Lake is located in Washburn County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Lake
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,318 people
• Birchwood
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Birchwood is located in Washburn County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchwood
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 426 people
• Haugen
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Haugen is located in Barron County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haugen
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 270 people
• Madge
  (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Madge is located in Washburn County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madge
• Nobleton
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Nobleton is located in Washburn County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nobleton
• Bashaw
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Bashaw is located in Burnett County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bashaw
• Earl
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Earl is located in Washburn County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earl

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Beaver Brook. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Beaver Brook.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Beaver Brook. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Beaver Brook.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Beaver Brook. See our Newspapers Page for Beaver Brook.

Adding Beaver Brook to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Beaver Brook in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Beaver Brook was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Beaver Brook post office opened in 1917. The Beaver Brook post office closed in 1944.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Beaver Brook.