In 1797, Thompson was sent south by his employers to survey part of Canada-U. S. boundary along the water routes from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods to satisfy unresolved questions of territory arising from the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States.

All but a small part of Ontario's 2, 700 km ( 1, 677 mi ) border with the United States follows inland waterways: from the west at Lake of the Woods, eastward along the major rivers and lakes of the Great Lakes / St.

* October 20 – Treaty between the U. S. and the United Kingdom establishes the boundary between the U. S. and British North America as the 49th parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle.

* Clara Barton Woods in Lake Clear, New York

** Wilde Lake – Bryant Woods, Faulkner Ridge, Running Brook, The Birches

* Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota

* Shoal Lake Cree Nation ( also Woods Cree )

* Canoe Lake First Nation ( also Woods Cree )

Those who fled to Canada now have descendants residing on nine small Dakota Reserves, five of which are located in Manitoba ( Sioux Valley, Long Plain, Dakota Tipi, Birdtail Creek, and Oak Lake ) and the remaining four ( Standing Buffalo, Moose Woods Cap, Round Plain, and Wood Mountain ) in Saskatchewan.

The trails provide scenic views of the East State Street commercial area and travel past and through notable features such as Sells Pond, Riddle State Nature Preserve ( also known as Hawk Woods ), Boulder Cove, Turtlehead Cave ( also known as Blue Ash Rockhouse ), Finger Rock, Pioneer Cemetery, and Dow Lake at Strouds Run State Park.

On April 28, 2008, the Utah Transit Authority opened the FrontRunner commuter rail line from Salt Lake City north to Ogden, serving the length of Davis County with stations in Woods Cross, Farmington, Layton, and Clearfield.

In a similar move made by former North Hollywood neighborhoods that are now named Toluca Woods, West Toluca Lake, and Valley Village, a few Van Nuys neighborhoods have won approval the Los Angeles City Council to break off from Van Nuys and join the more upscale communities of Lake Balboa, Valley Glen and Sherman Oaks in an effort to raise their property values.

Lake of the Woods County is a county located in the U. S. state of Minnesota.

The county contains the Northwest Angle, the northernmost point of the Lower 48 States, and includes the U. S. portion of Lake of the Woods, shared with Canada.

Since Alaska has no counties, Lake of the Woods is the northernmost county in the United States.

Lake of the Woods County was named because the lake covers a large portion of the county.

In 1885 the region of Lake of the Woods got its first settler, Wilhem Zippel, who was a German immigrant and a fisherman.

Lake of the Woods County is also known as Minnesota's youngest county.

* Lost Lake Woods

* Camp McLoughlin is located on the northwestern shoreline of Lake of the Woods of the Fremont-Winema National Forests.

* Camp Low Echo is located on Lake of the Woods at the foot of Mount McLoughlin in Winema National Forest.

* Camp Loll is operated located on Lake of the Woods in Wyoming near Yellowstone National Park.

Among these may be mentioned: the Mazatzal Mountain region in Gila and Maricopa Counties, Arizona ; Red Feather Lakes, near Ft Collins, Colorado ; Amethyst Mountain, Texas ; Yellowstone National Park ; Delaware County, Pennsylvania ; Haywood County, North Carolina ; Deer Hill and Stow, Maine and in the Lake Superior region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario in Canada.

* Baldwin Lake, San Bernardino County, California

The Chicago Tribune, which coined the term, includes the city of Chicago, the rest of Cook County, eight nearby Illinois counties: Lake, McHenry, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Grundy, Will and Kankakee, and three counties in Indiana: Lake, Porter and LaPorte.

The Illinois Department of Tourism defines Chicagoland as Cook County without the city of Chicago, and only Lake, DuPage, Kane and Will counties.

* Enterprise, Lake County, California, an unincorporated community

Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States, located in the southeastern portion of the Chicago metropolitan area.

Smaller bodies of water are Lake Velence ( 26 square km ) in Fejér County and Lake Fertő ( Neusiedler See -- about 82 square km within Hungary ).

Smaller bodies of water include Lake Velence ( 26 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) in Fejér County and Lake Fertő ( 82 km < sup > 2 </ sup > within Hungary ).

* Simcoe County to the west and north of Lake Simcoe

* Grand River Nature Preserve: a preserve located near Grand Lake where the Grand River starts in the lower part of Jackson County in Liberty Township.

* Portage Lake County Park: a small park on Portage lake in the Waterloo State Recreation Area.

* Vandercook Lake County Park: a small park on Vandercook Lake in the Village area of Vandercook Lake in Summit Township.

It thens flows through Blackman Charter Township and then Rives Township and Tompkins Township before entering Ingham County, Eaton County, Clinton County, Ionia County, Kent County, Ottawa County and into the city of Grand Haven where it empties into Lake Michigan.

* Janus Lake ( Washington ), Snohomish County, Washington

He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.

The family estate was situated near Vadstena on Lake Vattern in south central Sweden.

In 1959, according to the Engineers, Lake Texoma was only one of thirty-two artificial lakes and reservoirs which were used for recreation by over 1,000,000 persons.

He never rested until he discovered who the culprit was, and when he did, he vowed vengeance on Viola Lake if ever the chance came his way.

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

A young man was killed and two others injured at midnight Friday when the car they were riding slid into a utility pole on Lake Avenue near Waddell Street, NE, police said.

Curtis Allen Huff, 41, of 1630 Lake Av., Wilmette, was arrested yesterday on a suppressed federal warrant charging him with embezzling an undetermined amount of money from the First Federal Savings and Loan association, 1 S. Dearborn St., where he formerly was employed as an attorney.

The Hieron ( Sanctuary ) of Apollo adjacent to the Sacred Lake, was the place where the god was said to have been born.

At Manzikert, on the Murat River, north of Lake Van, Diogenes was met by Alp Arslan.

There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.

They settled down near Kurile Lake, which was inhabited by the Kamchatka Ainu and North Kuril Ainu.

Immediately on his return from Finland, Alexei was dispatched by his father to Staraya Russa and Lake Ladoga to see to the building of new ships.

It was built on a raised plateau overlooking the east bank of the river Strymon where it emerged from Lake Cercinitis, about 3 m. from the Aegean Sea.

Anāsāgar Lake, this historic man-made lake was built by Maharaja Anaji ( 1135-1150 AD ).

Lake Foy Sagar is situated in the outskirts of the city, it is a picturesque artificial lake that was created as a famine relief project in 1892.

Chicago's location on Lake Michigan gave access to a vast inland territory, and it was well-served by railroads.

The Quinte area played a vital role in bootlegging during Prohibition in the United States, with large volumes of booze being produced in the area, and shipped via boat on the Bay to Lake Ontario finally arriving in New York State where it was distributed.

Summer holidays were spent in Scotland and in the English Lake District where Beatrix developed a love of the natural world which was the subject of her painting from an early age.

In 1887, when Dalguise was no longer available, the Potters took their first summer holiday in Lancashire in the Lake District, at Wray Castle near Windermere.