| Gilfillan Lake | |
|---|---|
  Gilfillan Lake | |
| Location | Ramsey County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 45°5′3″N93°4′46″W / 45.08417°N 93.07944°W Coordinates: 45°5′3″N93°4′46″W / 45.08417°N 93.07944°W |
| Type | lake |
Gilfillan Lake is a lake in Ramsey County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. [1]
Gilfillan Lake was named for Charles D. Gilfillan. [2]
Redwood County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 United States Census the population was 16,059. Its county seat is Redwood Falls, along the Redwood River near its confluence with the Minnesota River.
Koochiching County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,311. Its county seat is International Falls. A portion of the Bois Forte Indian Reservation is in the county. A small part of Voyageurs National Park extends into its boundary, with Lake of the Woods County to its northwest.
Beltrami County is a county in the northern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 44,442. Its county seat is Bemidji. The county's name comes from Italian adventurer Giacomo Beltrami from Bergamo, who explored the area in 1825. The county was created in 1866 and organized in 1896.
Savannah Township is a township in Becker County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 162 as of the 2000 census.
Lake Itasca is a small glacial lake approximately 1.8 square miles in area. It is notable for being the headwaters of the Mississippi River, and is located in southeastern Clearwater County, in the Headwaters area of north central Minnesota. The lake is within Itasca State Park and has an average depth of 20 to 35 feet (6–11 m), and is 1,475 ft (450 m) above sea level.
Lake Bemidji is a small glacially-formed lake, approximately 11 square miles in area, in northern Minnesota in the United States. Located less than 50 miles (80 km) downstream from the source of the Mississippi River, it both receives and is drained by the Mississippi.
Eagle Mountain is the highest natural point in Minnesota, United States, at 2,301 feet (701 m). It is in northern Cook County, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Superior National Forest in the Misquah Hills, northwest of Grand Marais. It is a Minnesota State Historic Site.
The Lester River, is a 19.3-mile-long (31.1 km) tributary of Lake Superior, in northeastern Minnesota in the United States. It drains an area of 58 square miles (150 km2).
John Bachop Gilfillan, known as J.B., was a Minnesota politician and lawyer active in the late 19th century. Gilfillan was born on February 11, 1835 in Caledonia County, Vermont. He attended school there, first Caledonia County Grammar School and then Caledonia County Academy, until 1855, when he moved to Minnesota. He was later admitted to the bar and began law practice in 1860. Although not certain, he probably worked as a teacher at some point between 1855 and 1860. Once he became a lawyer, he began his public life.
Fairbanks is an unincorporated community in Fairbanks Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States; located within the Superior National Forest.
The Leaf Hills Moraines, sometimes called the Leaf Mountains, are a range of hills in west-central Minnesota. The land does not exhibit many characteristics of mountains, but nevertheless rises typically to a height of 100 feet (30 m) to 300 feet (91 m) above the surrounding farmland, occasionally reaching higher than 350 feet (107 m). The name of this range of hills is translated from the Ojibwe Gaaskibag-wajiwan, which was interpreted by Gilfillan as “Rustling Leaf Mountains.” The name is also shared by Leaf Mountain Township, the two Leaf Lakes ("Gaaskibag-wajiwi-zaaga'iganan"), and the Leaf River ("Gaaskibag-wajiwi-ziibi"), all named for the hills. In turn, the hills in Ojibwe are named after Inspiration Peak ("Gaaskibag-wajiw"), the highest hill of this hill range.
Joseph Alexander Gilfillan was an Episcopal missionary to Native Americans of the Ojibwa Tribe on White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota during 35 years from 1873 until 1908.
Leaf River, or Leafriver, is a ghost town in section 22 of Leaf River Township, Wadena County, Minnesota, United States.Today the town has a population around 50. There is a restaurant, a golf course, an old school house and a residential community.
Gilfillan is an Irish surname. Notable people with the name include:
The Knife River is a 23.9-mile-long (38.5 km) river of northern Minnesota which drains a portion of Lake and Saint Louis counties into Lake Superior between Duluth and Two Harbors.
The Poplar River is a river in northeastern Minnesota that drains into Lake Superior.
Island Lake is an unincorporated community in Beltrami County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
Gilfillan is an unincorporated community in Redwood County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
Wall Lake is an unincorporated community in Otter Tail County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
Lake Belle Taine is a lake in Hubbard County, Minnesota, in the United States.
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