Silver Lake (Kingsbury County, South Dakota)

Location of De Smet, South Dakota

Silver Lake is a reclaimed lake located immediately east of De Smet, on the north side of U.S. Highway 14.

History

Caroline Ingalls named the lake for the silvery appearance of its surface.[1]

Silver Lake was the lake about which Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote in her novel "By the Shores of Silver Lake". The Ingalls home (currently, a museum) and Surveyor's House are very close to it. The lake was drained into nearby Lake Henry in the 1920s and the lakebed was used for farming and rubbish dumping. A portion of the lake has since filled again with water.

References

  1. ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.2. University of South Dakota. p. 68.

External links

Coordinates: 44°23′09″N 97°33′06″W / 44.38587°N 97.55170°W / 44.38587; -97.55170


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