Colonel William A. Phillips

The Cross River is a 20.4-mile-long (32.8 km)^[1] river in northern Minnesota, the United States. It is a direct tributary of Lake Superior.^[2]

Cross River was named for a wooden cross erected at the river's mouth by a priest.^[3]

See also

List of rivers of Minnesota

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 7, 2012
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cross River
^ Warren Upham (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 142.

Minnesota Watersheds
USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Minnesota (1974)

North Shore streams of Minnesota (List of Minnesota rivers)
Baptism River Beaver River Brule River Caribou River Cascade River Cross River Devil Track River Encampment River Gooseberry River Knife River Lester River Manitou River Pigeon River Poplar River Saint Louis River Split Rock River Sucker River Temperance River

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_River_(Lake_Superior)