Lake Chippewa, also known as Chippewa Flowage, is an
artificial lake
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from t ...
in northwestern
Wisconsin
Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig ...
. It is fed by the East Fork Chippewa River and the West Fork Chippewa River. Winter Dam at the southern end is where the
Chippewa River flows out of the lake.
There are numerous floating
peat bogs
A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, and mus ...
in the lake, the largest of which is known as the "Forty-Acre Bog".
References
External links
Map of Chippewa Flowage areaVideo
Reservoirs in Wisconsin
Lakes of Sawyer County, Wisconsin
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