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Pokegama Lake (Minnesota)

Coordinates: 45°50′24″N 93°2′24″W / 45.84000°N 93.04000°W / 45.84000; -93.04000
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Pokegama Lake
Bakegamaa-zaaga'igan (Ojibwe)
Pokegama Lake in Grand Rapids
Location of the lake in Minnesota.
Location of the lake in Minnesota.
Pokegama Lake
LocationPine County, Minnesota
Coordinates45°50′24″N 93°2′24″W / 45.84000°N 93.04000°W / 45.84000; -93.04000
Typelake

Pokegama Lake is the name used for two lakes in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

One is located near Grand Rapids in Itasca County.[1][2] The lake was made into a reservoir by the construction of the Pokegama Lake Dam on the Mississippi River in Cohasset, Minnesota. The other Pokegama is located near Pine City in Pine County.[3]

Pokegama is a name derived from the Ojibwe language Bakegamaa meaning "the water which juts off from another water," [4] which describes the lake's connection to its near-by river: to the Snake River in Pine County, and to the Mississippi River in Itasca County.

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References

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pokegama Lake (Minnesota)
  2. ^ "LakeFinder - Pokegama Lake - Minnesota DNR". Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. 2014-05-02. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
  3. ^ "LakeFinder - Pokegama Lake - Minnesota DNR". Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. 2014-05-02. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
  4. ^ Upham, Warren (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 413.