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    Lake Okabena is a small lake located in Nobles County in southwestern Minnesota. It was first noted on a map made by French explorer Joseph Nicollet in...
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    Okabena (/oʊkəˈbiːnə/ OH-kə-BEE-nə) is a town in Jackson County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 203 at the 2020 census. The community's...
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    as the eye could see. One small lake in Sisseton Country was given the name "Lake Okabena" on Nicollet's map, "Okabena" being a Dakota word meaning "nesting...
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    area in 1842. Nicollet named Lake Okabena (there were two Lake Okabenas at the time), Lake Ocheda, East and West Graham Lake and the Kanaranzi Creek. The...
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    baseball, softball, track and field, and golf with Heron Lake-Okabena, known as the Heron Lake-Okabena/Fulda Coyotes, and wrestling with Murray County Central...
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    O’Brien's imagination and his early development as an author. The town is on Lake Okabena in the southwestern part of the state and serves as the setting for some...
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  • all land. The main geographic feature in Worthington Township is Lake Okabena. Okabena means "home of the heron" is the Sioux language. Main highways include:...
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  • Secondary School, Nashwauk Thistledew School, Togo Heron Lake-Okabena High School, Okabena Jackson County Central Senior School, Jackson Mora Secondary...
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  • moved to its current, 76-acre (31 ha) campus located to the north of Lake Okabena. In 1964, Worthington Junior College was transferred to the State Junior...
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    farm lands. Lake Ocheda is managed by the Okabena-Ocheda Watershed District. The first permanent settlers on Lake Ocheda were Ole Fauskee and his family...
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