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Lake Erie (42.2° N, 81.2W) has a mean elevation of 571 feet (174 m) [ 8] above sea level. It has a surface area of 9,990 square miles (25,874 km 2) [ 7] with a length of 241 statute miles (388 km; 209 nmi) [ 7] and breadth of 57 statute miles (92 km; 50 nmi) [ 7] at its widest points. It is the shallowest of the Great Lakes with an average ...
Early Lake Erie was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago. The early Erie fed waters to Glacial Lake Iroquois . The ancient lake was similar in size to the current lake during glacial retreat, but for some period the eastern half of the lake was covered with ice.
814 and 582. FIPS code. 42-24000. Website. www .erie .pa .us. Erie ( / ˈɪəri /; EER-ee) is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the fifth-most populous city in Pennsylvania and the most populous in Northwestern Pennsylvania with a population of 94,831 at the 2020 census ...
The Battle of Lake Erie, also known as the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on 10 September 1813, on Lake Erie off the shore of Ohio during the War of 1812. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of the British Royal Navy. This ensured American control of the lake for the rest of the war, which in turn allowed ...
1967. Presque Isle State Park ( / prɛsk / PRESK) is a 3,112-acre (1,259 ha) Pennsylvania State Park on an arching, sandy peninsula jutting into Lake Erie, 4 miles (6 km) west of the city of Erie, in Millcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The peninsula sweeps northeastward, surrounding Presque Isle Bay along the ...
A 1901 map of Lake Erie prepared by the War Department, Corps of Engineers projected from a trigonometrical survey executed in 1875, 1876, 1877 and 1878. Additions and corrections in 1900 and 1901. Map shows lighthouses, soundings, bouies, and islands in Lake Erie.
Conneaut Creek / ˈkɒni.ɒt / is a 43.5-mile (70.0 km) tributary of Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio in the United States. [4] Via Lake Erie, the Niagara River and Lake Ontario, it is part of the watershed of the St. Lawrence River, which flows to the Atlantic Ocean . Conneaut Creek rises in western Crawford County ...
The largest known seiche on Lake Erie was a 22-foot event that killed 77 people and dammed Niagara Falls with ice, temporarily stopping the waterfall from flowing. More recently, a 16-foot seiche ...