This river has its source within a few miles of Salmon Lake, from which it is separated by a low divide.
It flows southeast through a broad gravel-filled valley for 30 miles (48 km) to Flambeau River before emptying into Safety Sound.
[1] Its headwaters reach the limestones of the Nome series and much of its course lies in a chlorite-albite-schist belt.
[3] Its local name was recorded in 1899 by Frank Charles Schrader and Alfred Hulse Brooks and it appeared on the 1900 United States Geological Survey map.
Among others, San Jose, Mulligan, Fox, and Venetia are mentioned; sluicing occurred on the three latter streams.