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Housing Units (2000): 673
Land area (2000): 2.025285 sq. miles (5.245464 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.245846 sq. miles (3.226727 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.271131 sq. miles (8.472191 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04475
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 45.458050 N, 92.454872 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54810
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Balsam Lake
Wikipedia
Balsam Lake may refer to:
Balsam Lake is a lake located in the Kawartha Lakes region of south central Ontario, Canada. It is 16 km long and averages 3 km wide, though its actual width varies due to the many large bays the carve its shoreline. The Gull River empties into the lake.
The lake is the highest point of the Trent-Severn Waterway; from here, the waterway descends to Georgian Bay in the northwest, and to Lake Ontario in the southeast.
The village of Coboconk, Ontario is located on the north side of the lake. Balsam Lake Provincial Park is also located on the lake.
The lake offers excellent fishing for bass, walleye, and muskie. Mackenzie Bay in West Bay is a popular spot for boats to congregate on a warm summer day.
Balsam Lake covers over 65 mi (105 km) of shoreline and covering a surface area of 2,054 acre (831 ha) and is the biggest lake in Polk County, Wisconsin. Public access to the lake by boat ramps are on the northwest, southwest and East Balsam. It is fed by natural springs and seepage from wetlands on the southwestern, northeastern and eastern shores. Maximum depth is 37 ft (11 m).
Balsam Lake is well known for its great fishing for panfish ( bluegill, sunfish, crappie, yellow perch, and bullhead) and sport fish such as largemouth bass, walleye, and northern pike. Other recreational activities such as boating, canoeing, swimming and water-skiing in summer and ice fishing, snowmobiling, and cross-country skiing and the 17.8 mi (29 km) Cattail State Trail.
Over fifty businesses line the shore of the lake, including resorts, motels, bait and tackle shops, grocery stores, restaurants, insurance offices, chiropractic, hardware, gas stations, taverns and more
The original plat records the Ojibwe Indian name of this place as Innenehinduc. Translated as "Place of the Evergreen", the town and village of Balsam Lake were named after this large lake.
Balsam Branch, the main outlet of Balsam Lake is a Class II trout stream.
Balsam Lake is a lake in Itasca County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
Balsam Lake was named for the balsam fir trees in its vicinity.