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Fish Lake
IndianaCDP
Fish Lake
Total population
684
Median home value
$190,800
Bachelor's+
Median income
$80,976
Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Fish Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lincoln Township, LaPorte County, Indiana, United States. It is located where Indiana State Road 4 passes between Upper Fish Lake and Lower Fish Lake. These lakes feed the Kankakee River. As of the 2020 census, Fish Lake had a population of 1,052.
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History
Before the draining of the Grand Kankakee Marsh, the body of water at Fish Lake was known in French as Lac Tipiconeau. It was then located on the main stream of the Kankakee, just upstream of its confluence with Potato Creek. The lake took its name from the French term for buffalo fish, and this name in turn likely led to the modern English name "Fish Lake". According to linguist Michael McCafferty this name "appears to be a gnarled form of Miami-Illinois kiteepihkwanonki, 'at the buffalo fish'", referring to Lac Tipiconeau. By 1899 Swift & Co. was shipping 18 railroad cars full of ice from Fish Lake to Chicago each day. Ice harvesting ceased here in 1930.
Geography
Fish Lake is located in eastern LaPorte County in the center of Lincoln Township. The community surrounds Lower Fish Lake and covers the north, west, and south sides of Upper Fish Lake. Mill Creek, the lakes' outlet, flows south to the Little Kankakee River and then shortly to the Kankakee River, a west-flowing waterway that is a primary tributary of the Illinois River. Indiana State Road 4 passes through the community, between the two lakes, and leads northwest to La Porte, the county seat, and southeast to North Liberty. Fish Lake is southwest of South Bend. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Fish Lake CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 18.24%, are water.
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Largest nearby schools
- LaPorte High SchoolOther · LaPorte · 1,875 students · 16:1 ratio
- New Prairie High SchoolHigh · New Carlisle · 979 students · 17.2:1 ratio
- LaPorte Middle SchoolMiddle · LaPorte · 941 students · 14:1 ratio
- Kesling Intermediate SchoolMiddle · LaPorte · 903 students · 14.3:1 ratio
- New Prairie Middle SchoolMiddle · New Carlisle · 705 students · 20.1:1 ratio
- Rolling Prairie Elementary SchoolElementary · Rolling Prairie · 434 students · 18.9:1 ratio
- Handley Elementary SchoolElementary · LaPorte · 391 students · 16.3:1 ratio
- Hailmann Elementary SchoolElementary · LaPorte · 343 students · 15.6:1 ratio
Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • US Census Bureau (ACS 5-year estimates)
- • Wikidata
- • NCES via Urban Institute Education Data Portal
- • CDC PLACES
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library