sawbill

Sawbill Lake is a lake in Cook County, Minnesota.

The Hooded Merganser has a sawbill but is not classified as a typical merganser.

It rises at the outlet of Sawbill Lake and is a tributary of the Temperance River.

The name is derived from the French Riviere Aux Bec Scies, meaning river of sawbill ducks (bec-scie).

It flows entirely within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of Superior National Forest, ending at Sawbill Lake.

An aboriginal person discovered The Hammond Reef Mine in 1894 on the shore of Sawbill Lake, about 30 miles from Atikokan and showed it to John Hammond.

Water from the Kelso River flows via Sawbill Creek (the outlet of Sawbill Lake) to the Temperance River and thence to Lake Superior.

The center of Sawbill Landing is generally considered at the intersection of Sawbill Landing Road and Dumbbell Road; which is also near the boundary line between Crystal Bay Township and Stony River Township.