DeSmet, Lake (Wyo.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Geographic subdivision usage: Wyoming DeSmet, Lake
Variant(s): Lake DeSmet (Wyo.)
See also: Lakes --Wyoming
Reservoirs --Wyoming
Found in: Work cat.: 2004368895: Final report, Lake Desmet Level II master plan and reservoir rehabilitation plan, 2003: p. 2-1 (Originally, Lake DeSmet was a small body of water occupying a natural depression within an essentially closed basin ... at the time of the first pioneers and Father DeSmet, a Jesuit priest for whom the lake is named, entered the area in the 1860s, the lake was noted as a brackish body of water. In the early 1920s, Lake DeSmet was converted into an off-channel reservoir ...) 3-1 (Lake DeSmet Reservoir is a man-made enlargement of a small natural lake created by constructing an earthfill embankment 90 feet in height at the north end of the lake, a similar embankment 50 feet in height at the south end of the lake, and several small dikes of lesser height along the eastern rim of the reservoir.)
GNIS, Wyoming, July 27, 2004 (Lake Desmet, reservoir, Johnson County)
GeoNames [algorithmically matched] reservoir; 44°30ʹ48ʺN 106°46ʹ32ʺW
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Guide to the Lake DeSmet Ditch Company Collection
Collection — Box 1087
Identifier: H2018-3
Abstract
The collection contains various corporation records about the operation and management of the company and its property..
Dates:
1886-2006
Guide to the Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources Department records
Collection
Identifier: RG0135
Abstract
Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Recources Department records as maintained by the Wyoming State Archives consist department administration records from the Cultural Resources Division, and the State Parks and Historic Sites Division
Dates:
1949-2013