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Straight Lake State Park: Polk: 2,780 1,130 2002 Straight Lake In development around a lake surrounded by mature forest and glacial landforms. [57] Tower Hill State Park: Iowa: 77 31 1922 Wisconsin River: Interprets a reconstructed shot tower where lead shot was manufactured 1832–1860. [58] The tower is on the NRHP. Whitefish Dunes State Park ...
There are over 15,000 lakes in Wisconsin. Of these, about 40 percent have been named. Excluding Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, Lake Winnebago is the largest lake by area, largest by volume and the lake with the longest shoreline. The deepest lake is Wazee Lake, at 350 feet (107 meters). The deepest natural lake is Green Lake, at
Natural Bridge State Park (Wisconsin) WTPN; WHRC; WLCJ; WHDG; WAYY; Washington Island (Michigansee) Door-Halbinsel; Rock Island State Park (Wisconsin) Winslow Lake (Wisconsin) Glover-Bluff-Krater; Alexander Lake (Lincoln County, Wisconsin) Pigeon Lake (Wisconsin) Alexander Lake (Douglas County, Wisconsin) Rock Lake (Crawfish River) Trout Bog Lake
The Wisconsin glaciation formed the Wisconsin Dells, Devil's Lake, and the Kettle Moraine. A number of areas are protected in the state, including Devil's Lake State Park, the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, and the Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest. Wisconsin has a humid continental climate across the entire state, with four distinct ...
Lac Courte Oreilles (/ l ə ˈ k uː d ər eɪ / lə-KOO-də-ray) [1] is a large freshwater lake located in northwest Wisconsin in Sawyer County in townships 39 and 40 north, ranges 8 and 9 west. It is irregular in shape, having numerous peninsulas and bays, and is approximately six miles long in a southwest to northeast direction and with a ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Wisconsin.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
The Lac Courte Oreille ceded land under a treaty they signed with the United States in 1837, the 1842 Treaty of La Pointe, and the first 1854 Treaty of La Pointe. The tribal reservation has a land area of 108.36 square miles (280.65 km 2), including the trust lands [3] and a population of 2,968 persons as of the 2020 census. [4]
The following is a list of named islands of the state of Wisconsin. According to the USGS , there are 431 named islands, [ 1 ] and many more unnamed ones among Wisconsin's 15,074 lakes. [ 2 ] Wisconsin borders both Lake Michigan and Lake Superior producing many of the state's islands.