Name: Cooper Lake

 

County: Albany

 

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Longitude:  1055002W

Latitude: 413723N

 

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Elevation: 6995/2132

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Feature Type: Lake

 

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History:

Near the station of Cooper Lake a small alkali lake surrounded with white incrustations of sodium carbonate is visible near the track, but Cooper Lake itself can be seen only from a point several miles west of the station. This lake is about 4 miles long and 2 miles wide and occupies the lowest part of a broad depression. Like many of the small lakes of the Laramie Basin it has no outlet, and the considerable quantities of water entering it through the two creeks that head in the Medicine Bow Mountains to the south escape only by evaporation. For this reason, the size of the lake is variable, depending on the balance between rainfall and evaporation.

Source: Guidebook of the Western United States

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Cooper Lake South

 

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