page_title: Lake Nokomis
section_title: Fish
hierarchical_section_title: Lake Nokomis / Fish
caption_attribution_description: English: Lake Nokomis, Minneapolis, Minnesota
context_page_description: Lake Nokomis is one of several lakes in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The lake was previously named Lake Amelia in honor of Captain George Gooding's daughter, Amelia, in 1819. Its current name was adopted in 1910 to honor Nokomis, grandmother of Hiawatha. It is located in the southern part of the city, west of the Mississippi River and south of Lake Hiawatha. The lake is oval in shape, with a long axis running southwest to northeast. Two pathways circle the lake, a 2.7-mile pedestrian tail and a 2.8-mile bicycle trail. Because the lower part of the lake is crossed by Cedar Avenue running north–south, the impression from the ground is that the lake is shaped like an L. The lake has an area of 204 acres.
  When purchased in 1907 by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, the lake was very shallow, only 5 feet deep in the deepest spot. Much of it was actually marshland or slough—a drainage area for the neighborhood. It was deepened by dredging to produce the current lake.
context_section_description: The lake contains black bullhead, black crappie, bluegill, bowfin, largemouth bass, carp, golden shiner, hybrid sunfish, pumpkinseed, tiger muskellunge, walleye, white sucker, yellow bullhead, and yellow perch. Some fish consumption guideline restrictions have been placed on the lake's walleye and white sucker due to mercury contamination.
caption: Boat launch and pier at Lake Nokomis
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