Former lakes of Minnesota
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  • Lake Agassiz
    Lake Agassiz
    Lake Agassiz was an immense glacial lake located in the center of North America. Fed by glacial runoff at the end of the last glacial period, its area was larger than all of the modern Great Lakes combined, and it held more water than contained by all lakes in the world today.-Conception:First...

  • Glacial Lake Aitkin
    Proglacial lakes of Minnesota
    The proglacial lakes of Minnesota were lakes created in what is now the U.S. state of Minnesota in central North America in the waning years of the last glacial period. As the Laurentide ice sheet decayed at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation, lakes were created in depressions or behind moraines...

  • Bear Lake, in Lowville Township, Minnesota
    Lowville Township, Minnesota
    Lowville Township is a township in Murray County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 175 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 36.0 square miles , of which, 35.8 square miles of it is land and...

     was actually a wooded area with four lakes: Bear Lake proper, Crooked Lake, Hawk or Rush Lake, and Tibbetts or Great Oasis Lake. These lakes and surrounding wetlands, a total of 6000 acres (24 km²), were drained in 1915.
  • Central Lake, in Murray County, Minnesota
    Murray County, Minnesota
    As of the census of 2000, there were 9,165 people, 3,722 households, and 2,601 families residing in the county. The population density was 13 people per square mile . There were 4,357 housing units at an average density of 6 per square mile...

     east of Lime Creek
  • Glacial Lake Duluth
    Glacial Lake Duluth
    Glacial Lake Duluth was a proglacial lake that formed in the Lake Superior drainage basin as the Laurentide ice sheet retreated. The oldest existing shorelines were formed after retreat from the Greatlakean advance, sometime around 11,000 years B.P. Lake Duluth formed at the western end of the Lake...

  • Glacial Lake Grantsburg
    Proglacial lakes of Minnesota
    The proglacial lakes of Minnesota were lakes created in what is now the U.S. state of Minnesota in central North America in the waning years of the last glacial period. As the Laurentide ice sheet decayed at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation, lakes were created in depressions or behind moraines...

  • Glacial Lake Minnesota
    Proglacial lakes of Minnesota
    The proglacial lakes of Minnesota were lakes created in what is now the U.S. state of Minnesota in central North America in the waning years of the last glacial period. As the Laurentide ice sheet decayed at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation, lakes were created in depressions or behind moraines...

  • Glacial Lake Upham
    Proglacial lakes of Minnesota
    The proglacial lakes of Minnesota were lakes created in what is now the U.S. state of Minnesota in central North America in the waning years of the last glacial period. As the Laurentide ice sheet decayed at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation, lakes were created in depressions or behind moraines...

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