Lake Michigan “Did you know” with sources

1)
Lake Michigan’s name is believed to come from the Ojibwa Native American word “mishigami,” meaning large lake.
Source:
https://www.livescience.com/32011-lake-michigan.html

2)
Lake Michigan is 118 miles wide and 307 miles long with more than 1,600 miles of shoreline.
Source:
https://www.michiganseagrant.org/topics/great-lakes-fast-facts/lake-michigan/

3)
The average depth of Lake Michigan is 279 feet and the deepest point is 925 feet, located about 36 miles east of Forestville, WI on the Door Peninsula.
Source:
https://www.michiganseagrant.org/topics/great-lakes-fast-facts/lake-michigan/
https://wgntv.com/weather/where-is-the-deepest-part-of-lake-michigan-and-what-is-the-water-temperature/

4)
Lake Michigan is the second largest of the Great Lakes (after Superior) when measured by its water volume of 1,180 cubic miles.
Source:
https://www.livescience.com/32011-lake-michigan.html

5)
Lake Michigan is the third largest of the Great Lakes (after Superior and Huron) when measured by its water surface of 22,300 square miles.
Source:
https://www.livescience.com/32011-lake-michigan.html

6)
The Strait of Mackinac connects Lake Michigan and Lake Huron at the same elevation, so they can be considered one lake hydrologically.
Source:
https://greatlakes.guide/watersheds/michigan

7)
Lake Michigan is home to a wide variety of fish including chinook salmon, coho salmon, steelhead (rainbow trout), brown trout, lake trout and yellow perch.
Source:
https://www.michiganseagrant.org/topics/great-lakes-fast-facts/lake-michigan/

8)
Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake located entirely within the United States, with coastlines along Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Source:
https://www.michiganseagrant.org/topics/great-lakes-fast-facts/lake-michigan/

9)
The Illinois coastline of Lake Michigan extends 63 miles, 22 miles of which is the City of Chicago shoreline.
Source:
https://files.isgs.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/files/publications/chap25.pdf

10)
Chicago uses canals and water control structures to drain up to 2.1 billion gallons of Lake Michigan water per day into the Mississippi River.
Source:
https://www.michiganseagrant.org/topics/great-lakes-fast-facts/lake-michigan/

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