Lake Cochrane

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Lake Cochrane
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Lake Cochrane
Location Deuel County, South Dakota
Coordinates 44°42′29″N96°28′41″W / 44.70806°N 96.47806°W / 44.70806; -96.47806
Type lake
Surface area350 acres

Lake Cochrane is a lake in South Dakota, in the United States. [1]

Lake Cochrane has the name of Byron J. Cochrane, a pioneer who settled at the lake in the 1870s. [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lake Cochrane
  2. Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.2. University of South Dakota. p. 18.