Smith Lake is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Middleville Township, Wright County,

Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...

, United States. The community is located along Wright County Road 5 near 50th Street SW. Nearby places include Cokato and Howard Lake. Smith Lake was

plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...

ted in 1869, and named after nearby Smith Lake. A post office was established at Smith Lake in 1871, and remained in operation until 1914.

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Unincorporated communities in Minnesota Unincorporated communities in Wright County, Minnesota {{WrightCountyMN-geo-stub