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Lac Vieux Desert has a surface elevation 1,680 ft (510 m) [3] above sea level, and a maximum depth of about 40 ft (12 m). The surface area is 4,260 acres (17.24 km 2 ; 6.66 sq mi), of which approximately two-thirds is in Wisconsin and one third in Michigan.
The island is one of two inhabited islands in Lac Vieux Desert, the other being Duck Island, Wisconsin. Sometimes shown on older maps as Koch Island or Oak Island and locally as Rose Island [1] the current name was designated official by the Board on Geographic Names Decisions of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1962. [2]
As of the census of 2020, [2] the population of the Lac Vieux Desert Reservation was 221. The population density was 527.4 inhabitants per square mile (203.6/km 2).There were 82 housing units at an average density of 195.7 per square mile (75.6/km 2).
Lac Vieux Desert: Coordinates Highest elevation: 1,680 ft (512 m) ...
Texas Rock is officially classified as an island, but is only above the surface of the water with very low water levels. [6] ... Lac Vieux Desert: 0.03 0.078
A reservoir in the Palisades that holds 117 million gallons of water was offline this month for previously scheduled maintenance. ... the water level would likely have been well below maximum ...
Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (or the Gete-gitigaaning in the Anishinaabe language) is a federally recognized band of the Lake Superior Chippewa, many of whom reside on the Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation, located near Watersmeet, Michigan. It is approximately 45 miles southeast of Ironwood, Michigan in Gogebic County.
A new water storage facility in the desert will bank supplies underground for Southern California in an effort to help the region adapt to climate change.