East of the river is a gently rolling plain consisting of about 170 square miles in area. It is in this plain that Baldhill creek's western branches have their source. At present the stream is unimportant but during the recessional days of the ice sheet a mighty river rushed down its course cutting the broad valley with the waters from the melting ice.

Bald Hill Creek has its western headwaters in the east ten miles of Foster County and flows into the Sheyenne River in the northern part of Barnes County. Hence, its waters eventually reach the Hudson Bay. The Creek passes north and south through the county about three miles west of Lake Juanita and the James River.

Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 8