Name: Phelps Lake

 

County: Teton

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1104742W

Latitude: 433837N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 6637/2023

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Lake

 

Origin of Name:

Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Teton County, ... . South boundary of park crosses lake near south end. Named by F. V. Hayden, and shown on maps in his reports on the Geological and Geographical Surveys of the Territories, 1878.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932 

 

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Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Grand Teton

 

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Pictures:

 

Teton Mountains. View northwest from J. Y. Ranch at foot of Phelps Lake to Death Canyon,

which is cut in granitic rocks and glaciated, September 16, 1925 

Photograph by W. C. Alden, United States Geological Survey

U. S. Geological Survey Photographic Library