Thistle Island
Thistle Island is an island on Fourth Lake in Herkimer County, New York. It is located east-northeast of Old Forge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bartons Island and Alger Island.
Alger Island
Island
Alger Island, also known as Big Island, is a small island located on Fourth Lake, part of the Fulton Chain of Lakes, within the Adirondack Park in New York State.
Sis Lake
Sis Lake is a small lake west of Eagle Bay in Herkimer County, New York. It drains east via an unnamed creek which flows into Bubb Lake. It lies on a trail between Bubb and Moss Lake.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eagle Bay and Inlet.
Eagle Bay
Hamlet
Eagle Bay is a hamlet on Route 28 in the town of Webb in Herkimer County, New York, United States. Eagle Bay is on the border of Herkimer and Hamilton counties, and borders Fourth Lake. Eagle Bay is situated 3 miles northeast of Thistle Island.
Inlet
Hamlet
Photo: Anne LaBastille, Public domain.
Inlet is a town in Hamilton County, New York, United States. The population was 355 at the 2020 census, up from 333 in 2010. The name is derived from its location at the eastern end of Fourth Lake, part of the Fulton Chain of Lakes. Inlet is situated 3½ miles east of Thistle Island.
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.
Thistle Island
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Fourth Lake, Herkimer County, New York, United States
- Categories: island, locality, and landform
- Location: Herkimer, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
43.75392° or 43° 45′ 14″ northLongitude
-74.86895° or 74° 52′ 8″ westElevation
1,713 feet (522 metres)Open location code
87M7Q43J+HCOpenStreetMap ID
way 39015769OpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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In Other Languages
“Thistle Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Thistle Island”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thistle Island”. Photo: Jeffrey Johnson, CC BY-SA 2.0.