Cooley Lake (White Lake Township, Michigan)

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Cooley Lake
Location of the lake in Michigan.
Location of the lake in Michigan.
Cooley Lake
LocationOakland County, Michigan
Coordinates42°36′56″N 83°27′09″W / 42.615617°N 83.452632°W / 42.615617; -83.452632Coordinates: 42°36′56″N 83°27′09″W / 42.615617°N 83.452632°W / 42.615617; -83.452632
Basin countriesUnited States
Surface area86 acres (35 ha)
Max. depth55 ft (17 m)
SettlementsWhite Lake Township

Cooley Lake is a private, all-sports, 86-acre Oakland County, Michigan lake located in White Lake Township.[1]

Namesake[]

Solon Cooley (1830-1881), along with his wife Levantia (1836-1910) and their two children, lived on a 158-acre farm in section 36 of White Lake Township, Michigan, on the shore of the lake that was named for them, Cooley Lake.[2][3][4]

Solon was originally from Galen, New York.

References[]

  1. ^ "Map" (PDF). www.dnr.state.mi.us.
  2. ^ "RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Wheeler, Decker, Johnson, Bonker and Houston Families". Wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  3. ^ LLC., Historic Map Works. "White Lake, Atlas: Oakland County 1872, Michigan Historical Map". www.historicmapworks.com.
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-07-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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