| Smith Lake, Minnesota | |
|---|---|
| Unincorporated community | |
  Smith Lake, Minnesota Location of the community of Smith Lake within Middleville Township, Wright County  Smith Lake, Minnesota Smith Lake, Minnesota (the US) | |
| Coordinates: 45°04′59″N94°06′54″W / 45.08306°N 94.11500°W Coordinates: 45°04′59″N94°06′54″W / 45.08306°N 94.11500°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Minnesota |
| County | Wright |
| Township | Middleville Township |
| Elevation | 1,050 ft (320 m) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 55321 and 55349 |
| Area code(s) | 320 |
| GNIS feature ID | 654947 [1] |
Smith Lake is an unincorporated community in Middleville Township, Wright County, Minnesota, United States. The community is located along Wright County Road 5 near 50th Street SW. Nearby places include Cokato and Howard Lake.
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.
Middleville Township is a township in Wright County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 925 at the 2000 census.
Wright County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 124,700. Its county seat is Buffalo. The county was founded in 1855.
Smith Lake was platted in 1869, and named after nearby Smith Lake. [2] A post office was established at Smith Lake in 1871, and remained in operation until 1914. [3]
In the United States, a plat is a map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Surveys to show the distance and bearing between section corners, sometimes including topographic or vegetation information. City, town or village plats show subdivisions into blocks with streets and alleys. Further refinement often splits blocks into individual lots, usually for the purpose of selling the described lots; this has become known as subdivision.
Smith Lake is a lake in Wright County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
