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Lac Vieux Desert has a surface elevation 1,680 ft (510 m) [3] above sea level, and a maximum depth of about 40 ft (12 m). The surface area is 4,260 acres (17.24 km 2 ; 6.66 sq mi), of which approximately two-thirds is in Wisconsin and one third in Michigan.
The 1854 Treaty of La Pointe attempted to consolidate multiple groups of Ojibwe, but the Lac Vieux Desert Band organized to purchase the land around Rice bay from the government, one parcel at a time. By the 1870s, wild rice harvesting was once more taking place at Rice Bay, and year-round occupancy of Ketegitigaaning began in the 1880s.
Lac qui Parle ("lake that speaks") La Crescent; Lac Vieux Desert ("lake of the old clearing") Lake Pepin (named after French-Canadian settler Jean Pepin) Lake Traverse; La Salle (named after René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer) Le Roy (named after Le Roy, New York)
Vilas County has more lakes than any other county in Wisconsin, [1] with 563 named and 755 unnamed lakes covering 93,889 acres. Lac Vieux Desert near Phelps, at 4017 acres, is the largest.
Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (or the Gete-gitigaaning in the Anishinaabe language) is a federally recognized band of the Lake Superior Chippewa, many of whom reside on the Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation, located near Watersmeet, Michigan. It is approximately 45 miles southeast of Ironwood, Michigan in Gogebic County.
The 2020 census results may be inaccurate for places like the Lac Vieux Desert Reservation owing to the Census Bureau's implementation of differential privacy protections. [3] [4] Of the total reservation population, 205 people were living on the northern section in the unincorporated community of Watersmeet, Michigan.
The Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation was established by treaty under the United States in 1854. The Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, part of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians, have occupied this territory since the 17th century. The band owns and operates a resort on the reservation, which includes a casino and golf ...
The island is one of two inhabited islands in Lac Vieux Desert, the other being Duck Island, Wisconsin. Sometimes shown on older maps as Koch Island or Oak Island and locally as Rose Island [1] the current name was designated official by the Board on Geographic Names Decisions of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1962. [2]