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The body of water known as Gages Lake was estimated to have formed nearly 10,000 years ago during the most recent ice age. In 1838 a schoolhouse was built in the area that would in time become Warren Township High School in 1917. [4] In the 1840s a man known as John Gage and his brother George Gage began sellings parcels of land surrounding the ...
847/224. FIPS code. 17-82686. Website. www.winthropharbor.com. Winthrop Harbor is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Winthrop Harbor is considered the corner stone of Illinois. Per the 2020 census, the population was 6,705. [2] It is located along the northern border of Illinois and is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.
Lake James is a natural lake located in the northeast corner of the state of Indiana in the United States. It is popular as a place for boating and fishing and has a wide variety of wildlife. As the state's fourth-largest natural lake, it has over 1,200 acres (490 ha) of surface water, and consists of three basins.
Simcoe Island. / 44.16806°N 76.52417°W / 44.16806; -76.52417. Simcoe Island is a small island approximately six kilometres (3.7 mi) long, and one point five kilometres (0.93 mi) across at its widest point, in Lake Ontario, just off Wolfe Island, close to Kingston, Ontario, and Amherst Island . The island is almost completely farmland ...
Lake County's county road system currently covers 300 miles of road. [6] The county also employs two different numbering systems, a county route system and a county highway system. While both systems' can be seen on official road maps, only the County Route designations have been indicated with highway markers on traffic signals or dedicated poles.
Upper Klamath Lake is the largest remnant of Lake Modoc, a giant pluvial lake that existed in the region until about 10,000 years ago. At its largest, Lake Modoc covered over 1,000 square miles (2,600 km 2), joining Upper Klamath, Lower Klamath, and Tule Lakes, as well as all of the major wetlands in the upper Klamath River basin, into a contiguous body of water.
December 14, 1978. The Lake Washington Ship Canal is a canal that runs through the city of Seattle and connects the fresh water body of Lake Washington to the salt water inland sea of Puget Sound. The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks accommodate the approximately 20-foot (6.1 m) difference in water level between Lake Washington and the sound.
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Lake Springfield is a 3,965-acre (16.05 km 2) [ 1] reservoir on the southeast edge of the city of Springfield, Illinois. It is 560 ft (170 m) above sea level. The lake was formed by building Spaulding Dam across Sugar Creek, a tributary of the Sangamon River. It is the largest municipally-owned body ...