Name: Riddle Lake

 

County: Teton

 

Authority Name: 

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1103301W

Latitude: 442127N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 7917/2413

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Lake

 

Origin of Name:

Lake, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., ... about 2 1/2 miles south of West thumb of Yellowstone Lake. Named by R. Hering, topographer of Hayden survey, 1872.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932 

 

Riddle Lake is thus accounted for by Professor Bradley of the USGS. "Lake Riddle" is a fugitive name, which has been located at several places, but no where permanently. It is supposed to have been used originally to designate the mythical lake, among the mountains, whence, according to the hunters, water flowed to both oceans. 

Source: WPA

 

Lake Riddle is a fugitive name, which has been located at several places, but nowhere permanently. It is supposed to have been used originally to designate the mythical lake, among the mountains, whence, according to the hunters, water flowed to both oceans. I have agreed to Mr. Hering's proposal to attach the name to this lake, which is directly upon the divide at a point where the waters of the two oceans start so nearly together, and thus to solve the insolvable "riddle" of the the "two-ocean water."

Source: Frank H. Bradley in Hayden, 1872

 

Other Names: Lake Riddle

 

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Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Mount Jackson

 

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