# Birch Creek

Birch Creek is a stream in [Thompson Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-6f26-7196-87b7-19aed5e2a0ef), [Schoolcraft County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-5db8-742e-a771-aed84d83e265), [Michigan](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-57ff-7219-9e2f-cdc1b39bd0fa) (2.6 km long), in the [Lake Michigan (HUC10 0419000002)](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-1f2c-768f-8a9b-4fde379fd131) watershed; it flows into [Lake Michigan](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-da8b-736c-b10c-b5ac4195f147).

IRI: <https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac27-71b8-a3fc-34a8dac0b5c7>

Within: [Michigan](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-57ff-7219-9e2f-cdc1b39bd0fa) › [Schoolcraft County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-5db8-742e-a771-aed84d83e265) › [Thompson Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-6f26-7196-87b7-19aed5e2a0ef)

Type: [geo:Feature](http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#Feature), [schema:Place](https://schema.org/Place), [schema:RiverBodyOfWater](https://schema.org/RiverBodyOfWater)

Location: 45.78720, -86.42653 (box -86.45136, 45.78651, -86.42687, 45.79475; west, south, east, north)

- `adms:identifier`: [gnis 621400](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac27-71b8-a3fc-34b08b6d12f6)
- `dcterms:type`: [stream](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisStream)
- **flows into** (`bcgeo:flowsInto`): [Lake Michigan](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-da8b-736c-b10c-b5ac4195f147)
- `geo:hasDefaultGeometry`: [shape of Birch Creek](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de2c-c4e0-71e5-b378-7c1d54aa5b38)
- `geo:hasGeometry`:
  - [point of Birch Creek](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-e2da-7115-be46-90441098adf6)
  - [shape of Birch Creek](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de2c-c4e0-71e5-b378-7c1d54aa5b38)
- `geo:hasMetricLength`: 2603.9 (xsd:double)
- **in watershed** (`bcgeo:inWatershed`): [Lake Michigan (HUC10 0419000002)](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-1f2c-768f-8a9b-4fde379fd131)
- `prov:wasDerivedFrom`:
  - [evidence from https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/GeographicNames/DomesticNames/DomesticNames\_MI\_Text.zip](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac27-71b8-a3fc-34a732918060)
  - [evidence from https://3dhp.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/usgs\_3dhp\_all/FeatureServer](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de32-461a-70c6-b954-c8e6518f603d)
  - [evidence from https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-1951-7385-bfba-4bbf6ff8b7ca)
- `schema:containedInPlace`:
  - [Schoolcraft County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-5db8-742e-a771-aed84d83e265)
  - [Thompson Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-6f26-7196-87b7-19aed5e2a0ef)
- `skos:prefLabel`: Birch Creek

## Elsewhere

- [Wikidata Q34673831](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34673831) (proposed match (exactMatch))
- [USGS GNIS 621400](https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/621400) (gnis)
- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=45.78720&mlon=-86.42653#map=14/45.78720/-86.42653) (45.78720, -86.42653)
- [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=45.78720,-86.42653)
- [Source](https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/GeographicNames/DomesticNames/DomesticNames_MI_Text.zip) (prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com)
- [Source](https://3dhp.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/usgs_3dhp_all/FeatureServer) (3dhp.nationalmap.gov)
- [Source](https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer) (hydro.nationalmap.gov)

## Pointing here

- Flowing into it (1; `bcgeo:flowsInto`):
  - [Poodle Pete Creek](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-c4c2-773b-b05b-6b23c3b0785f)
- Mappings (1; `owl:annotatedSource`):
  - [exactMatch http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34673831 (proposed)](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddff-7384-7237-ac14-d4e50bfe91d8)

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Cite as: Birch Creek. bc-ontology, release 0.1.0-rc12, 2026-09-27. https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac27-71b8-a3fc-34a8dac0b5c7
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