The Winnebago Pool is a collective name for a group of interconnected
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 ...
s in eastern
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 ...
.
The terminal point of this watershed is
Lake Winnebago itself, which has a surface elevation of 746 feet. Besides Lake Winnebago, the Winnebago Pool includes Big
Lake Butte des Morts,
Lake Poygan and
Lake Winneconne. After the waters reach Lake Winnebago, they exit through the
Lower Fox River and over the next 39 miles, the river drops over 150 feet to reach the lower water level of
Green Bay.
The lakes of the Winnebago pool combine to encompass over and account for nearly 17% of the total surface water area in Wisconsin (not counting the
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border. The five lakes are Lake Superior, Superior, Lake Michigan, Michigan, Lake Huron, H ...
). The primary feed waters of the Winnebago Pool are the
Wolf River,
Upper Fox River and
Fond du Lac River. Lakes Winnebago and Big Lake Butte des Morts (along with
Little Lake Butte des Morts to the northeast) served as part of the
Fox-Wisconsin Waterway. The
Butte des Morts region is part of the Winnebago Pool.
References
Lakes of Wisconsin
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