Jordan Lake is lake on the northern edge of
Duchesne County
Duchesne County ( ) is a county in the northeast part of the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 18,607. Its county seat is Duchesne, and the largest city is Roosevelt.
History
Much of Duchesne County was ...
,
Utah,
United States.
The lake is located in the Naturalist Basin, at the eastern foot of
Mount Agassiz, within the
High Uintas Wilderness in the
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. The lake was named for
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Prior to serving as president of Stanford Univer ...
, a noted biologist, authority on fish, and a student of
Louis Agassiz
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.
Spending his early life in Switzerland, he rec ...
(for whom the nearby mountain was named).
See also
*
List of lakes in Utah
This is a list of lakes (including reservoirs) in the United States, grouped by state.
By state
Alabama
* Edgewood Lake
Alaska
* Agiak Lagoon
* Nelson Lake
Arizona
Arkansas
California
* Beck Lakes
* Kinman Pond
* Sinaloa L ...
References
Lakes of Utah
Features of the Uinta Mountains
Lakes of Duchesne County, Utah
Wasatch-Cache National Forest
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