Star Lake is a

lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

located in

Otter Tail County, Minnesota Otter Tail County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 60,081, and was estimated to be 60,884 in 2024. The county seat and the largest city is Fergus Falls. Otter Tail County comprises the Fer ...

. 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 i ...

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