Otsego Lake is a small lake located in Otsego County is a county located in the state of New York, USA. The 2003 population estimate was 62,196, a 2. ...Otsego County, New York in the The word Usa has more than one meaning: U.S.A. _ The United States of America Usa, Oita _ A city in Japan This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...USA and is a source of the The Susquehanna River is a river in the northeastern United States, approximately 410 mi (715 km) long. ...Susquehanna River. Cooperstown is a village located in Otsego County, New York. ...Cooperstown, New York is at the southern end. Glimmerglass State Park is located near Cooperstown, New York on the shore of Otsego Lake, which is the Glimmerglass of the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper. ...Glimmerglass State Park is located on the northeastern shore.
The lake was known to James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 _ September 14, 1851), American novelist, was born at Burlington, New Jersey, on the 15th of September 1789. ...James Fenimore Cooper as Glimmerglass.
Otsego Lake is nine miles (14.5 km) long. It is geologically related to the New Yorks Finger Lakes The Finger Lakes are glacially formed lakes in upstate New York, mainly linear in shape, each lake oriented on a north_south axis. ...Finger Lakes.
Otsego County occupies the highest lands of the great central plateau of Northern Michigan, comprising the main watershed that sends the headwaters of the Cheboygan River toward the North, the Au Sable toward the East and the Manistee toward the West.
Otsego County was one of the last counties opened for settlement due to problems of inaccessibility.
Within three years the Otsego area had progressed to the point that it could organize itself as a county and on March 12, 1875 OtsegoLake Township detached itself from Antrim County and organized into the County of Otsego.
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