Otsego Lake (other)
Otsego Lake may refer to: Bodies of water: * Otsego Lake (Michigan) * Otsego Lake (New York) Other: * Otsego Lake Township, Michigan ** Otsego Lake, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Otsego Lake State Park Otsego Lake State Park is a public recreation area covering on the southeast shore of Otsego Lake in Otsego Lake Township, Otsego County, Michigan. History The park was among 13 parks established in 1920 following the creation of the Michig ...

Otsego Lake (Michigan)
Otsego Lake is located in northwest Michigan at , south of the city of Gaylord in Otsego County. The lake spans the boundary between Otsego Lake Township to the south and Bagley Township to the north. Otsego Lake State Park is located on the southeast shore of the lake and Otsego County Park is on the northwest shore. The lake has many private cottages and homes with direct access to the lake and parks. History Otsego Lake was the long-time summer residence of Arthur Compton. Compton received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1927 for his work with X-rays and what later became known as the "Compton effect". During World War II, he was a key figure in the Manhattan Project that developed the first nuclear weapons. In the late 1950s, noted American architect and Frank Lloyd Wright protege, William Adair Bernoudy, designed Compton's retirement home on the lake directly across from Otsego Lake State Park. Dimensions Otsego Lake is , and long and at its widest. In general, it ...
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Otsego Lake (New York)
Otsego Lake is a lake located in Otsego County in the U.S. state of New York. It is the source of the Susquehanna River and largest lake in Otsego County. The Village of Cooperstown is located at the lake's southern end. Glimmerglass State Park is located on the lake's northeastern shore, and includes Hyde Hall, a large mansion constructed in 1817, that overlooks the lake. The Glimmerglass Opera, opened in June 1987, is located on the western shore. Between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, glaciers of the Wisconsin glaciation filled the valley. Otsego Lake was formed when an ice tongue from a glacier carved out the Susquehanna River Valley. As the glaciers melted slowly, they filled in the valley they carved out. The lake takes its name from the Iroquois Indians, who inhabited the area around the lake in and before the 17th century. The name ''Otsego'' is from a Mohawk or Oneida word meaning "place of the rock", referring to the large boulder near the lake's outlet, today known a ...
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Otsego Lake Township, Michigan
Otsego Lake Township is a civil township of Otsego County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,847 at the 2010 census. The township takes its name from Otsego Lake, in which the southern half is within the township. Otsego Lake State Park is located in the township on the southeast shore of the lake. Communities *Artubus Beach is an unincorporated community located on the township line with Bagley Township on the eastern shores of Otsego Lake at . It was settled as a small resort community, and its name comes from both its shoreline on Otsego Lake and the abundant ''Arbutus'' in the nearby woods. *Farrar Landing is an unincorporated community located on the township line with Chester Township along Chub Creek at . *Otsego Lake is an unincorporated community located within the township at the southern end of Otsego Lake at . It is centered along the junction of county highways C-38 and F-38 just east of Interstate 75. The community was settled along the Ja ...
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Otsego Lake, Michigan
Otsego may refer to: Places ;United States * Otsego County (other) * Otsego Township (other) * Cities and towns: ** Otsego, Michigan ** Otsego, Minnesota ** Otsego, New York ** Otsego, Muskingum County, Ohio ** Otsego, Wood County, Ohio ** Otsego, Wisconsin, a town *** Otsego (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community Ships SS Otsego See also * Otsego Lake (other) * Otsego Hall, estate * Otego (other) Otego may refer to: Places in the United States: * Otego Township, Fayette County, Illinois * Otego (village), New York in Otsego County * Otego (town), New York in Otsego County * Otego, Kansas See also * Otego Creek * List of ''The Dark To ...