Simon Lake

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Simon Lake

Coordinates56.50°, -116.64°

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Simon Lake was a Quaker American mechanical engineer and naval architect who obtained over two hundred patents for advances in naval design and competed with John Philip Holland to build the first submarines for the United States Navy.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Nearby places in Alberta

• Grimshaw
  43 mi away
• Lac Cardinal
  47.8 mi away
• Normandville
  52.1 mi away
• Falher
  57.3 mi away
• Girouxville
  58.3 mi away
• Birch Meadows Hutterite Colony
  66.3 mi away
• Guy
  68.6 mi away
• Eaglesham
  69 mi away
• Enilda
  76.1 mi away
• Homeland Hutterite Colony
  77.4 mi away
• Codesa Hutterite Colony
  77.9 mi away
• Vanrena
  78.5 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Simon Lake

Great Stories from the Canadian Frontier

Gordon T. Stewart · 1979

American folktales

Peggy A. Bulger · 2004

A TOUR OF THE WORLD

Malik Mansab Khan · 2025

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

cloudberry

Rubus chamaemorus

Seen 2023-05-24

American vetch

Vicia americana

Seen 2022-07-12

marsh grass-of-Parnassus

Parnassia palustris

Seen 2021-07-19

round-leaved sundew

Drosera rotundifolia

Seen 2021-07-10

Common Liverwort

Marchantia polymorpha

Seen 2021-07-10

Northern Comandra

Geocaulon lividum

Seen 2021-06-24

yellow lady's slipper

Cypripedium parviflorum

Seen 2021-06-23

Arctic Butterbur

Petasites frigidus

Seen 2021-05-23

Wood Frog

Lithobates sylvaticus

Seen 2020-07-26

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).