Otsego Lake
Otsego Lake is a 4,046-acre lake located in Otsego County in the U.S. state of New York. It is the source of the Susquehanna River and largest lake in Otsego County.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Otsego County, New York, USA
- Also known as: “Lake Otsege”, “Ostega Lake”, “Ostenha”, “Ote-sa-ga”, and “Otsega Lake”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sunken Island and Kingfisher Tower.
Sunken Island
Reef
Sunken Island, also known as Hutters Island, is a sunken island on Otsego Lake in Otsego County, New York. Sunken Island is several feet below the surface of the lake and is marked with 4 buoys to prevent boats from running aground. Sunken Island is situated 2½ miles north of Otsego Lake.
Kingfisher Tower
Building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kingfisher Tower is a 60-foot-tall folly on the eastern shore of Otsego Lake, New York, at Point Judith. Located north of Cooperstown near County Highway 31, the Gothic Revival tower was designed by architect Henry J. Kingfisher Tower is situated 2½ miles south of Otsego Lake.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cooperstown and Springfield Center.
Cooperstown
Photo: Ron Cogswell, CC BY 2.0.
Cooperstown, in Central New York, is known best for its role as the home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The villagers believe that Abner Doubleday invented baseball on a cow pasture within the village in 1839.
Springfield Center
Hamlet
Springfield Center is a hamlet in the town of Springfield, Otsego County, New York, United States. According to the 2010 US census, The location of Springfield Center had a population of 402. Springfield Center is situated 4½ miles north of Otsego Lake.
Fly Creek
Hamlet
Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fly Creek is a non-incorporated hamlet three miles west of the Village of Cooperstown on conjoined NY-28/NY-80, in the Town of Otsego, in Otsego County, New York, United States. Fly Creek is situated 5 miles southwest of Otsego Lake.
Otsego Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Otsego, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Otsego Lake” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Otsego Lake”
- Chinese: “奧齊戈湖”
- Chuvash: “Отсего”
- Dutch: “Otsegomeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره اوتسيجو”
- Esperanto: “Otsego”
- French: “lac Otsego”
- French: “Lac Otsego”
- German: “Otsego Lake”
- Italian: “lago Otsego”
- Italian: “Lago Otsego”
- Japanese: “オチゴ湖”
- Russian: “Отсиго”
- Venetian: “lago Otsego”
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Localities in the Area
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