Maple Lake (Polk County)

Maple Lake (Polk County)
Maple Lake
Location Polk County, Minnesota
Coordinates 47°39′31″N 96°09′28″W / 47.6587°N 96.1578°W / 47.6587; -96.1578Coordinates: 47°39′31″N 96°09′28″W / 47.6587°N 96.1578°W / 47.6587; -96.1578
Lake type artificial
Basin countries United States
Location of Maple Lake, Minnesota

Maple Lake is a lake in central Polk County, Minnesota, located 2 miles due south of Mentor and approximately 4 miles west of Erskine. The name of the lake is taken from the extensive maple tree forest which surrounds it. Even before American settlement of the region, the existence of these extensive hardwood forests in an otherwise treeless open prairie gave the lake a geographic identity. Maple Lake is a natural lake, and is the westernmost significant lake in the Red River Valley of Northwestern Minnesota. The lake appears on 19th century historic maps of the area, and developed as a summer home and resort community as early as 1910. As a result of drought conditions and low inflows during the 1930s, however, the lake nearly dried up. Beginning in 1940 a two-stage Works Progress Administration development project involving the diversion of water from nearby Badger Lake and the Poplar River raised the lake to its current artificially maintained water level. This rejuvenated the resort industry, and the lake remains a popular summer home, recreational watersports and fishing lake, drawing people from eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota as well as other neighboring states.


Sources

  • Maple Lake Citizen Monitoring Project Report, 'Maple Lake Assessment Report--1991', available on-line at http://redlakewatershed.org/projects.html.
  • J. Hoveland, 'Whatever Happened to the Gar Wood? Tales of Life at Hoveland's Haven and the Restoration of Maple Lake' (priv.pub., July 2007).

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