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Lake Cicott, Indiana

Unincorporated community and Census-designated place in Indiana, United States

40°45′55″N 86°31′52″W / 40.76528°N 86.53111°W / 40.76528; -86.53111CountryUnited StatesStateIndianaCountyCassTownship JeffersonElevation

^[1]

699 ft (213 m)Population

(2000)

• Total26ZIP code

46947

GNIS feature ID2830327^[1]

Lake Cicott is an unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Cass County, Indiana. The community is named after the lake in which it sits beside.

History

Lake Cicott was laid out in 1868.^[2] The namesake of Lake Cicott is George Cicott, a pioneer.^[3] The first post office in Lake Cicott was established in 1873.^[4]

Geography

The town of Lake Cicott is located at the eastern end of Lake Cicott. Lake Cicott is the only lake in Cass County and is the southern most glacial lake in Indiana.^[5] The lake is approximately a half mile long and a quarter mile wide and is no more than 50 feet (15 m) in depth. There are no streams feeding into it.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lake Cicott, Indiana
^ Powell, Jehu Z. (1913). History of Cass County Indiana: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Lewis Publishing Company. pp. 631.
^ Baker, Ronald L. (October 1995). From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...which was named for George Cicott, a fur trader whose reserve was located here.
^ "Cass County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved August 29, 2014.
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^ Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Biological Society of Washington. 1909.