Name: Elk Island

 

County: Teton

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1104042W

Latitude: 435141N

 

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Elevation: 6873/2095

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Feature Type: Island

 

Origin of Name:

Island, Teton County, Wyo., in Jackson Lake, near south end ... . So named because it is a feeding ground for moose, which swim out to it from Moose Bay.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932

 

Elk Island, in Jackson Lake, is the unsubmerged top of a morainal hill. It was much larger before the building of the Jackson Lake Dam which raised the level of the lake much higher than it was in its natural state. Elk Island came to be so called because of the presence of small numbers of elk at some times of the year.  

Source: WPA

 

Other Names: Warren Island, Pine Island

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Jenny Lake

 

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