Jump River

This article is about the Jump River, in northern Wisconsin. For other uses of the name, see Jump River (disambiguation).

The Jump River is formed at the confluence of the North Fork Jump River and the South Fork Jump River in southwestern Price County, Wisconsin, from which it flows approximately 25 miles (40 km) through Rusk, Taylor and Chippewa Counties, where it empties out into the Holcombe Flowage.

The primary settlement along the river is Sheldon.

The source of the river's name is the source of minor local controversy. Some say that the name comes from the many rapids which mark nearly the upper half of its course, while others maintain that the river was so-named because a 19th century forest fire jumped the river. Its name in Ojibwe does not shed light to its present name either, since the Ojibwa call this stream Manidoons-ziibi ("Little Spirit River").