How many lakes in MN?

Factual Questions
1

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/mnstatehistory/state_facts.html

Say there are 15,291 lakes > 10 acres

BUT

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/faq/mnfacts/water.html

says there are 11,842 > 10 acres.

Both use the same area definition, and from (semi) official sites. Anyone have an authoritative site?

(FWIW Wisconsin has 15,081 documented lakes - though many are smaller than 10 acres) http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water/fhp/lakes/Lakes1a.pdf

Brian

2

That water heater flooding of your basement got you going on this didn’t it?

Jen
(that’s neL upsidedown and backwardish)

3

Well, the MN DNR is about as authoritative as you can get. I’d go with that one.

Or, you could download Goodle Earth and begin a-countin’ yerself. :slight_smile:

(You might want to download Google Earth anyway. It’s pretty cool.)