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The county has a total area of 2,991 square miles (7,750 km 2), of which 2,109 square miles (5,460 km 2) is land and 881 square miles (2,280 km 2) (29%) is water. [10] It is the fifth-largest county in Minnesota by area. Lake County is located in the Arrowhead Region of Northeastern Minnesota.
47°01′20″N 91°40′17″W. / 47.0221°N 91.6714°W / 47.0221; -91.6714 ( Lake County Courthouse and Sheriff's Residence) Two Harbors. Queen Anne sheriff's residence/jail built circa 1887 and Beaux-Arts courthouse built in 1906, long-serving seats of Lake County government and representative examples of two eras of public ...
The Battle of Sugar Point, or the Battle of Leech Lake, was fought on October 5, 1898 between the 3rd U.S. Infantry and members of the Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians in a failed attempt to apprehend Pillager Ojibwe Bugonaygeshig ("Old Bug" or "Hole-In-The-Day"), as the result of a dispute with Indian Service officials on the Leech Lake Reservation in Cass County, Minnesota.
Minnesota's legal identity was created as the Minnesota Territory in 1849, and it became the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858. After the chaos of the American Civil War and the Dakota War of 1862 ended, the state's economy grew when its timber and agriculture resources were developed.
Gooseberry Falls State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. The park is located in Silver Creek Township, about 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Two Harbors, Minnesota in Lake County on scenic Minnesota Highway 61. The park surrounds the mouth of the Gooseberry River and includes Upper, Middle and ...
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793 – December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is also noted for his major six-volume study of Native Americans commissioned by Congress and ...
The lake's surface elevation has fluctuated over time, with a recorded high of 926.7 feet (282.5 m) above mean sea level in June 1943, and a recorded low of 918.8 feet (280.1 m) in January 2013, with significant high and low periods throughout.
The Great Hinckley Fire was a conflagration in the pine forests of the U.S. state of Minnesota in September 1894, which burned an area of at least 200,000 acres (810 km 2; 310 sq mi) [1] (perhaps more than 250,000 acres [1,000 km 2; 390 sq mi]), including the town of Hinckley. The official death count was 418; the actual number of fatalities ...