Independence Lake
Independence Lake is a lake in Herkimer, New York.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Little Safford Lake and Big Diamond Pond.
Little Safford Lake
Lake
Little Safford Lake is located southeast of Carter Station, New York. The outlet creek flows into the North Branch Moose River. Fish species present in the lake are white sucker, black bullhead, brook trout, yellow perch, and sunfish.
Big Diamond Pond
Pond
Big Diamond Pond is a small lake southwest of Big Moose in Herkimer County, New York. It drains south via an unnamed creek that flows into the North Branch Moose River.
Doe Pond
Pond
Doe Pond is a small lake north-northeast of Old Forge in Herkimer County, New York. It drains northwest via an unnamed creek that flows into the Independence River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Forge and Thendara.
Old Forge
Photo: Anne LaBastille, Public domain.
Old Forge is a village of about 750 people in the Adirondacks. As one of the western gateway communities of the Adirondack Park, Old Forge forms an extensive business district, primarily directed at tourism especially during the summer months.
Thendara
Hamlet
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thendara is a hamlet and census-designated place in Herkimer County, New York, United States. Thendara is located in the Adirondack Park, in the southern part of the town of Webb, west of Old Forge on Route 28. Thendara station is a station on the Adirondack Railroad; it was formerly the northern terminus of most northbound trains from Utica, which was extended to Tupper Lake in late spring, 2023. Thendara is situated 5 miles south of Independence Lake.
Independence Lake
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake of the United States of America
- Category: body of water
- Location: Herkimer, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
43.77283° or 43° 46′ 22″ northLongitude
-74.97887° or 74° 58′ 44″ westElevation
1,939 feet (591 metres)Open location code
87M7Q2FC+4FOpenStreetMap ID
way 211037508OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
5121805Wikidata ID
Q34683771
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Egyptian Arabic—“Independence Lake” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Independence Lake”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره اينديپيندينس”
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