. Report of the State highway commission on the Iowa lakes and lake beds . AND LAKE BEDS OF IOWA BLUE LAKE—MONONA COUNTY. Lake ATo. 53. Survey made by the State Highway Commission. Inspec-tion made September 27, 1916. Blue Lake occupies parts of sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14in township 83 north, range 46 west, and of sections 34 and 3 5 in town-ship 84 north, 4 6 west. Onawa, the county seat, is three miles to theeast. Browns Lake is twenty-six miles to the northwest, Nobles Lakeis thirty-five miles to the south. The lake is a horseshoe shaped body of water; one of the many loopscut
. Report of the State highway commission on the Iowa lakes and lake beds . AND LAKE BEDS OF IOWA BLUE LAKE—MONONA COUNTY. Lake ATo. 53. Survey made by the State Highway Commission. Inspec-tion made September 27, 1916. Blue Lake occupies parts of sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14in township 83 north, range 46 west, and of sections 34 and 3 5 in town-ship 84 north, 4 6 west. Onawa, the county seat, is three miles to theeast. Browns Lake is twenty-six miles to the northwest, Nobles Lakeis thirty-five miles to the south. The lake is a horseshoe shaped body of water; one of the many loopscut off by the Missouri River in its wanderings. The water in thenortheastern part is 17 feet deep and open. The south and westernparts are more shallow and have considerable quantities of water plantsand rushes growing in them. The banks are good. Natural timber is found scattered along theshores, and among the sand dunes on the island. The area of the lake is 918 acres. The meander encloses consider-ably more land—1,599 acres being given in the report of the land of-. Fig. 36—Wrights Park, Blue Lake, Monona County. This is a privately owned parkon the shores of this beautiful Missouri Valley lake. The extent to which thisprivate park is utilized during- the summer months, demonstrates the advisabilityof the establishment of a state park open to the general public. The shore lineis all owned by private parties and there is no access to any recreation groundsexcept over private property. fice. At the time of the original land surveys, some very serious errorseems to have been made in this vicinity. In 1904, Fred Heyer, W. , J. H. McCaskey and twenty-two other property owners in thisvicinity, petitioned the district court to appoint a commission to deter-mine the corners and lines of sections 2 and 11. Morris McHenry, Holbrook and Mitchell Vincent were appointed as a commission bythe court. They retraced some of the old lines, and found many of the originalcorners
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