Lake Wassookeag

Lake Wassookeag is a reservoir in Penobscot, Maine. Lake Wassookeag is situated nearby to the neighborhood Spooners Mill, as well as near Coolidge Corner.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dexter Regional High School and Abbot Memorial Library.

Dexter Regional High School

School

Dexter Regional High School is a public high school in Dexter, Maine, United States. During the 2012–13 school year, DRHS had approx. 300 enrolled students.

Abbott Memorial Library is the public library of Dexter, Maine. It is located at 1 Church Street, in an architecturally sophisticated Renaissance Revival structure, built in 1894 as a gift from George Amos Abbott, a local mill owner.

Dexter Universalist Church

Place of worship

Dexter Universalist Church, or the First Universalist Church of Dexter, is a historic church on Church Street in Dexter, Maine. Built in the 1820s and restyled in the 1860s, it is a distinctive work of Boston, Massachusetts architect Thomas Silloway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dexter and Ripley.

Dexter

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Dexter is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,803 at the 2020 census. The town contains a census-designated place of the same name.

Ripley

Village

Ripley is a town in Somerset County, Maine, United States. The community was named after Brigadier General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley of the War of 1812. The population was 484 at the 2020 census.

Lake Wassookeag

Type: Reservoir
Also known as: “Dexter Pond” and “Wassokeag Lake”
Category: body of water
Location: Penobscot, Maine, New England, United States, North America
View on OpenStreetMap

Latitude

45.03188° or 45° 1′ 55″ north

Longitude

-69.30846° or 69° 18′ 31″ west

Elevation

430 feet (131 metres)

Open location code

87QG2MJR+QJ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 150551877

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=reservoir

GeoNames ID

4982207

Wikidata ID

Q34901776

This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.

We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Lake Wassookeag from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Lake Wassookeag” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Lake Wassookeag”
Welsh: “Llyn Wassookeag”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Lake Wassookeag”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Spooners Mill and Coolidge Corner.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Storer Cemetery and Dexter Municipal Beach.

Maine: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Augusta, Portland, Bangor, and Bath.

Curious Reservoirs to Discover

Uncover intriguing reservoirs from every corner of the globe.