Fish Lake, Indiana

Coordinates: 41°33′42″N 86°33′05″W / 41.56167°N 86.55139°W / 41.56167; -86.55139
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Fish Lake, Indiana
FIPS code
18-23386[3]
GNIS feature ID2629780[2]

Fish Lake is an

2010 census, the population of the community was 1,016.[4]

Geography

Fish Lake is located in eastern LaPorte County in the center of Lincoln Township. The community surrounds Lower Fish Lake and covers the north, west, and south sides of Upper Fish Lake. Mill Creek, the lakes' outlet, flows south to the Little Kankakee River and then shortly to the Kankakee River, a west-flowing waterway that is a primary tributary of the Illinois River.

Indiana State Road 4 passes through the community, between the two lakes, and leads northwest 10 miles (16 km) to La Porte, the county seat, and southeast 7 miles (11 km) to North Liberty. Fish Lake is 20 miles (32 km) southwest of South Bend.

According to the

U.S. Census Bureau, the Fish Lake CDP has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2), of which 1.5 square miles (4.0 km2) are land and 0.3 square miles (0.9 km2), or 18.24%, are water.[5]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
20201,052—
U.S. Decennial Census[6]

History

Before the draining of the

buffalo fish, and this name in turn likely led to the modern English name "Fish Lake".[7]

In 1702, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville noted that following the end of the Beaver Wars a group of Miami people had settled at "Atihipi-Catouy".[8] According to linguist Michael McCafferty this name "appears to be a gnarled form of Miami-Illinois kiteepihkwanonki, 'at the buffalo fish'", referring to Lac Tipiconeau.[7]

In the 1880s, the Swift & Co. ice company of Chicago purchased land around Upper and Lower Fish Lake and carried out

ice harvesting in the winter months.[9] By 1899 Swift & Co. was shipping 18 railroad cars full of ice from Fish Lake to Chicago each day.[9] Ice harvesting ceased here in 1930.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
  2. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fish Lake, Indiana
  3. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  4. ^ "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (DP-1), Fish Lake CDP, Indiana". American FactFinder. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
  5. ^ "U.S. Gazetteer Files: 2019: Places: Indiana". U.S. Census Bureau Geography Division. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
  6. ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
  7. ^ a b c Michael McCafferty (2008). Native American Place-Names of Indiana. University of Illinois Press. p. 66.
  8. ^ Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin (1974). Indians of Illinois and Northwestern Indiana: Anthropological Report on the Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi Indians. Garland Pub. Incorporated. p. 34.
  9. ^
    ISBN 9781476681818
    .


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