Spanish Lake (Missouri)

Spanish Lake
Spanish Lake
Spanish Lake
LocationSt. Louis County, Missouri
Coordinates38°47′49″N 90°12′14″W / 38.797°N 90.204°W / 38.797; -90.204
Typelake
Basin countriesUnited States
Surface elevation489 feet (149 m)

Spanish Lake is a lake located in unincorporated St. Louis County, Missouri in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]

Spanish Lake was named because the Spanish Governor Zénon Trudeau used it as a place of rest and retirement.[2]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Spanish Lake
  2. ^ "St. Louis County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.