Name: Taggart Lake

County: Teton

Authority Name: 

GNIS Entry

Longitude:  1104517W

Latitude: 434215N

Legal Description:

Elevation: 6906/2105

(ft/m)

Feature Type: Lake

Origin of Name:

Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Teton County, Wyo. ... Named by F. V. Hayden, and shown on many maps in his reports on the Geological and Geographical Surveys of the Territories, 1878.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932  

At the mouth of Avalanche Canyon, was named after W. Bush Taggart,  a member of the Hayden Geological Survey expedition of 1872.