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- Wisconsin has more than 15,000 lakes and 13,500 miles (21,700 kilometers) of navigable streams and rivers. Almost 3 percent of Wisconsin’s area—nearly a million acres (405,000 hectares)—is lakes.
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Almost 3 percent of Wisconsin’s area—nearly a million acres (405,000 hectares)—is lakes. Wisconsin has about 1.2 million billion gallons (4.5 million billion liters) of water underground—if it were above ground, it would submerge the state in 100 feet (30 meters) of water.
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The DNR publication "Wisconsin Lakes"reports that this state has 15,074 documented lakes from 1- or 2-acre spring ponds on up. Only about 40% have been named. Most of the unnamed lakes are small, less than 10 acres.
Minnesota. But answering this question is more complicated than it might appear, concludes reporter Eric Litke in a 2019 Politifact article. Former Wisconsin tourism secretary Sara Meaney told a radio interviewer that year that her state "absolutely" had more lakes than Minnesota. On the surface, her statement appeared accurate. Our DNR says Wiscon...
Portions of Lake Superior and Lake Michigan border Wisconsin. Wisconsin has 407 milesof Lake Michigan coastline. It has 325 miles of Lake Superior shore frontage, including the 175 miles of Apostle Islands shoreline, according to the National Park Service. Apostles Islands anniversary:No longer a Midwestern secret, Apostle Islands National Lakeshor...
Lake Winnebago, in Calumet, Fond do Lac and Winnebago counties, has an area of 131,939 acres, according to the DNR.It also has the longest shoreline of any lake completely contained in Wisconsin, described by most sources as 88 miles.
Petenwell Lake, in Adams, Juneau and Wood counties, has an area of 23,173 acres. It was created in 1948 by the Wisconsin River Power Companythrough construction of a dam across the Wisconsin River near Necedah.
Green Lake in Green Lake County has a maximum depth of 236 feet, making it Wisconsin's deepest natural lake.Wazee Lake in Jackson County, a manmade lakecreated from an abandoned iron mine, has a maximum depth of 350 feet.
The website OnlyInYourState.com claims Black Oak Lake in Vilas County is the clearest lake in Wisconsin, "almost too beautiful to be real." It's a claim proudly reiterated by the Black Oak Lake Preservation Foundation. The Wisconsin DNR saysthis lake's water clarity is "very clear."
Lake Mendota (9,781 acres), Lake Monona (3,359 acres), Lake Waubesa (2,074 acres) and Lake Kegonsa (3,200 acres) make up a chain of lakes connected by the Yahara River. Nearby Lake Wingra(336 acres) is a spring-fed lake that's not part of the Yahara chain.
Mud Lake. Wisconsin has 116 of them according to a DNR tally. Runners-up: Bass Lake, 82; Long Lake, 59; Spring Lake, 45; Lost Lake, 42. Coincidentally, Mud, Spring, Bass and Long are also among the most common lake names in Minnesota.
Vilas County has the most lakes, with 1,318, according to the DNR.Brown and Outagamie counties only have four lakes each. To search a DNR database with information about Wisconsin lakes, visit dnr.wi.gov/lakes/lakepages. Contact Jim Higgins at jim.higgins@jrn.com. Follow him on Twitter at @jhiggy. MORE:Wisconsin's coldest temperature, highest point...
May 9, 2019 · Removing the Great Lakes from the equation, Minnesota has 5.4% of its surface area covered by lakes compared to 2.7% for Wisconsin. Minnesota also has the largest lake, with Red Lake (288,000...
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- The badger state. The state symbol of Wisconsin, the badger, does not refer to the animal as most people think. Rather, it refers to the lead miners of the 1820s who travelled for work and even dug tunnels to find somewhere to sleep and stay warm—in the same way as a badger.
- Margarine was prohibited. Wisconsin prohibited the sale and use of margarine starting from 1895 to 1967. Although the ban has since been lifted, there are still some restrictions that remain on margarine.
- The state’s name comes from. The Wisconsin River is said to be the name behind the state’s name. The river used to be referred to as Meskousing by the aboriginal Algonquian-speaking tribes.
Jul 19, 2019 · Wisconsin counts everything, from half-acre farm ponds to 137,708-acre Lake Winnebago. Sixty percent of the lakes in the state don’t even have official names.
Seepage lakes are the most common type of lakes in Wisconsin and many of them in northern Wisconsin are now experiencing lower water levels. Although changes in water levels may be perceived as a problem for property owners, it is natural for lakes to go up and down in cycles that are decades long.
While the statement that Wisconsin contains 15,000 lakes is conditionally true, it requires invoking a somewhat nonconventional definition of a lake as a water body greater than 0.93 ha (2.2 acres, or approximately 100,000 ft2) in area.
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