Brule Lake forms part of the border between the states of

Michigan Michigan () is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the List of U.S. states and ...

and

Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...

and is the headwater of the

Brule River The Brule River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed December 19, 2011 river in the U.S. states of Michigan and Wisconsin. Nearly the entire course forms a portion of t ...

at . The source of the name is the Ojibwa name for the river, ''Wisakota'', meaning burned or burnt, which the French Voyageurs translated as .

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Borders of Michigan Borders of Wisconsin Lakes of Forest County, Wisconsin Bodies of water of Iron County, Michigan Lakes of Michigan {{ForestCountyWI-geo-stub

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