Star Lake is a

lake A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...

located in

Otter Tail County, Minnesota Otter Tail County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, its population was 60,081. Its county seat is Fergus Falls. Otter Tail County comprises the Fergus Falls micropolitan statistical area. With 1,048 lakes in i ...

. Star Lake Township, Minnesota is named after the lake because the township contains nearly the entire lake. Public access to the lake is available on

Minnesota State Highway 108 Minnesota State Highway 108 (MN 108) is a highway in west-central Minnesota, which runs from its interchange with Interstate Highway 94/ US Highway 52 at Prairie View Township near Rothsay and continues east to its eastern terminus at its int ...

Geography

Star Lake is named so because it consists of a main circular lake with three arms stretching out to resemble points of a star. It is also believed to have been formed by a meteor/space debris upon impact, unlike the majority of the lakes that were created by the glaciers. The lake covers an area of , and is known to be very deep just off the eastern shores of the lake, reaching a maximum depth of . Star lake is located at . The lake drains through a small channel into the slightly larger Dead Lake directly to its southeast.

External links

Star Lake report at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Lakes of Otter Tail County, Minnesota Lakes of Minnesota {{OtterTailCountyMN-geo-stub