Lake Albert (Kingsbury County, South Dakota)

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Lake Albert
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Lake Albert
Location South Dakota
Coordinates 44°32′00″N97°09′27″W / 44.53333°N 97.15750°W / 44.53333; -97.15750 Coordinates: 44°32′00″N97°09′27″W / 44.53333°N 97.15750°W / 44.53333; -97.15750
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Lake Albert is a lake in South Dakota, in the United States. [1] It is on the border of Kingsbury County and Hamlin County.

Lake Albert was named after John James Abert, a cartographer of the American West. According to a Federal Writers’ Project volume on South Dakota place names, “The present name is a corruption of ‘Abert.’” [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lake Albert (Kingsbury County, South Dakota)
  2. Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.2. University of South Dakota. p. 5.