Silver Lake is a 22-acre lake in
Cook County, Minnesota
Cook County is the easternmost County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 5,600, making it Minnesota's seventh-least populous county. Its county seat is G ...
which is a tributary to the
Poplar River.
[Minnesota Department of Natural Resources]
Silver Lake Information Report
2013. Accessed August 29, 2013. Silver Lake is six feet deep and has clarity down to 4.5 feet.
It has one inflow from Bulge Lake, and drains into
Rice Lake[Minnesota Department of Natural Resources]
Silver Lake Depth Map
1983. Accessed August 29, 2013. South of the inflow on the northwest shore, most of the west shore is a brush bog.
Silver Lake has a shoreline of 1.1 miles.
Because Silver Lake is connected to Rice Lake through a channel, both are expected to share the same fish population.
Walleyes, Northern Pike, and Yellow Perch have been found in surveys of Silver Lake proper, and surveys of Rice Lake have shown a presence of white sucker.
References
Lakes of Cook County, Minnesota
Lakes of Minnesota
Superior National Forest
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