Pine Creek (Rush Creek tributary)

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River in Minnesota

StatesMinnesota

locationSt. Charles Township, Winona County, Minnesota

Pine Creek
Section of Pine Creek
main section of Pine Creek showing tributaries
Mouth of Pine Creek
Location
Countries	United States
States	Minnesota
Counties	Winona, Fillmore
Physical characteristics

Source
• location	St. Charles Township, Winona County, Minnesota
• coordinates	43°56′40″N 91°54′18″W / 43.944427925898594°N 91.9049168509712°W

Mouth	Rush Creek
• location	Rushford, Minnesota
• coordinates	43°50′52″N 91°47′52″W / 43.8477416°N 91.7976499°W / 43.8477416; -91.7976499
Basin features
River system	Root River
Tributaries
• left	Hemminingway Creek, Coolrdige Creek
Bridges	School Section Road and Rt. 25 bridges

Pine Creek is a stream in Fillmore and Winona counties, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.^[1] It is a tributary of the Rush Creek, which is a tributary of the Root River. It joins the Rush Creek in the extreme north of Rushford, Minnesota. Tributaries of Pine Creek are Cooledge Creek and Hemmingway Creek.^[2]^[1]

Pine Creek meanders through rural farmland in southern Winona and northern Filmore Counties. According to the Minnesota Department of Natural resources, the species of fish present include brown trout, brook trout, white sucker, northern hog sucker, creek chub, longnose dace, blacknose dace, fantail darter, slimy sculpin, mottled sculpin, and brook stickleback.^[3]^[4]

Rush Creek suffered severe flooding in the Southeast Minnesota floods of August 18–20, 2007.^[5] The fish habitat and floodplain in sections of Pine Creek were restored in 2015 by the Minnesota Trout Unlimited.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Extents

The Pine Creek source is located in St. Charles Township, just below Interstate 90. It meanders south to Fillmore County before heading north where it runs east in Winona County along Winona County Road 2 and meets up with the Rush Creek in Winona County north of Rushford, Minnesota.^[1]

A bridge was built over Pine Creek on School Section Road in 2002.^[9]

Note: There are two Pine Creeks in Winona County. This Pine Creek is west of State Highway 43. It is sometimes called Fillmore County Pine Creek.The other Pine Creek (Mississippi River tributary) is in the east end of Winona County and Houston County.^[7]

Tributaries

There are two small tributaries of Pine Creek, Coolridge Creek with a length of 1.23 miles and Hemingway Creek with a length of 2.19 miles. Brown trout, brook trout, creek chub, blacknose dace, longnose dace, central stoneroller, slimy sculpin, white sucker, and brook stickleback are present in both tributaries. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conducted a study using Coolridge and Hemingway Creeks to investigate the effects of brown trout on native brook trout. Brown trout were kept out of Coolridge Creek and the natural migration of brown trout from Pine Creek to Hemingway Creek was allowed to continue during the experiment. An increase in growth rate and survival was noted in Coolridge Creek but the mature size of the brook trout was not appreciably different from the Hemingway Creek where brown trout were allowed.^[10]^[11]^[12]

References

1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pine Creek (Rush Creek tributary)
↑ "Trout Streams of Southeast Minnesota". Minnesota DNR. Archived from the original on April 21, 2021. Retrieved March 23, 2021.
↑ "Winona County". Minnesota DNR. Retrieved March 23, 2021.
↑ "Pine Creek". DNR. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
↑ "44 photos: A look back at deadly 2007 flooding in the La Crosse and Winona areas". LaCross Tribune. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
↑ "Fish habitat and floodplain restoration of a Minnesota trout stream". Barr Engineering. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
1 2 Reisetter, Mark. "Fishing Pine Creek". Minnesota Trout Unlimited. Retrieved March 23, 2021.
↑ "Pine Creek Easements" (PDF). National Trout Center. Retrieved March 23, 2021.
↑ "SCHOOL SECTION RD over Pine Creek". Bridge Reports. Retrieved March 23, 2021.
↑ "Southeast Minnesota Map Number 5" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. 2011. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
↑ Hoxmeier, John; Dieterman, Douglas (October 1, 2016). "Long-term population of native brook trout following manipulative reduction of an invader". Biological Invasions. 18. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
↑ "Brook Trout History, Natural History and the Genetics of Minnesota's Native Trout in SE MN" (PDF). Minnesota Trout Unlimited Newsletter. Retrieved April 2, 2021.

v t e Minnesota tributaries of the Upper Mississippi River below St Anthony Falls
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St. Croix River	Kettle River Snake River
Cannon River	North Cannon River Little Cannon River Straight River Little Cannon River (Sabre Lake) Belle Creek
Zumbro River	North Fork Zumbro River Middle Fork Zumbro River North Branch Middle Fork Zumbro River South Branch Middle Fork Zumbro River South Fork Zumbro River
Whitewater River	North Fork Whitewater River Middle Fork Whitewater River South Fork Whitewater River
Root River	South Fork Root River Badger Creek South Branch Root River Camp Creek North Branch Root River Middle Branch Root River Rush Creek Pine Creek Coolridge Creek Hemingway Creek
Upper Iowa River (Iowa, Minnesota)	Pine Creek Little Iowa River North Branch Upper Iowa River
Iowa River (Iowa)	Cedar River Shell Rock River Winnebago River (Iowa) Lime Creek Little Cedar River (Iowa and Minnesota) Little Cedar River (Dodge County, Minnesota)
Des Moines River (Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri)	East Fork Des Moines River Heron Lake Outlet Jack Creek Diversion Creek Okabena Creek Lime Creek Beaver Creek
Missouri River (Missouri, Iowa)	Little Sioux River Ocheyedan River West Fork Little Sioux River Big Sioux River (Iowa) Rock River Little Rock River East Branch Rock River Split Rock Creek Pipestone Creek Flandreau Creek
Other rivers and streams	Crooked Creek North Fork Crooked Creek South Fork Crooked Creek Hay Creek Pine Creek Vermillion River South Branch Vermillion River Wapsipinicon River Wells Creek Winnebago Creek
Streams by region	Driftless Area Counties Dakota Dodge Fillmore Goodhue Houston Mower Olmsted Rice Wabasha Winona
See also: List of rivers of Minnesota, North Shore Streams, Wisconsin rivers, Iowa rivers, North Dakota rivers

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