Bad Axe River
| Bad Axe River | |
|---|---|
The North Fork of the Bad Axe River | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wisconsin |
| County | Vernon |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Genoa |
| • coordinates | 43°31′40″N 91°09′51″W / 43.52778°N 91.16417°W |
| Mouth | |
• location | Mississippi River |
• coordinates | 43°31′12.91″N 91°13′40.28″W / 43.5202528°N 91.2278556°W |
The Bad Axe River is a 4.2-mile-long (6.8 km) tributary of the Mississippi River in southwestern Wisconsin in the United States. "Bad axe" is a translation from the French, "la mauvaise hache", but the origin of the name is unknown. The river's mouth at the Mississippi was the site of the Battle of Bad Axe, an 1832 U.S. Army massacre of Sauk and Meskwaki people at the end of the Black Hawk War.