Sugar Island viewed from Middle Bass Island

Sugar Island of

Ottawa County, Ohio Ottawa County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,364. Its county seat is Port Clinton. The county is named either for the Ottawa (Odawa) Indigenous peoples wh ...

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in southwestern

Lake Erie Lake Erie ( "eerie") is the fourth largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has t ...

. It is a private island and one of the smaller of the island group at 0.123 km² (30.39

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). It lies just off the northwest shore of

Middle Bass Island Middle Bass Island is an island of the U.S. state of Ohio, located in Lake Erie. A small town, Middle Bass, lies on the island. The 805-acre (3.258 km²) island is shaped like the Big Dipper and is one of three Bass Islands located at th ...

. It is located in

Put-in-Bay Township, Ottawa County, Ohio Put-in-Bay Township is one of the twelve townships of Ottawa County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 763 people in the township, 635 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. Communities *Put-in-Bay is a village l ...

. Sugar Island was once part of

, connected by way of a short isthmus. As trees were lumbered from this strip of connecting land,

began to reclaim the newly exposed, loose soil. Thus, the connecting isthmus sank into the lake, leaving Sugar Island separate from

References

Sugar Island: Blocks 1073 and 1074, Census Tract 501, Ottawa County, Ohio
United States Census Bureau Islands of Ottawa County, Ohio Islands of Lake Erie in Ohio Private islands of Ohio Private islands of the Great Lakes {{OttawaCountyOH-geo-stub