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...
7 KB (719 words) - 07:00, 11 October 2022
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...
15 KB (1,504 words) - 02:03, 9 June 2024
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...
42 KB (3,407 words) - 23:14, 30 April 2024
Nobles County, Minnesota (section Lakes)
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...
25 KB (2,053 words) - 21:31, 6 May 2024
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...
16 KB (1,443 words) - 13:42, 15 February 2024
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...
16 KB (1,509 words) - 18:53, 23 July 2024
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:...
7 KB (608 words) - 16:32, 14 August 2023
List of high schools in Minnesota (section Lake County)
Secondary School, Nashwauk Thistledew School, Togo Heron Lake-Okabena High School, Okabena Jackson County Central Senior School, Jackson Mora Secondary...
31 KB (2,365 words) - 10:54, 12 August 2024
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...
5 KB (383 words) - 03:48, 12 July 2024
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...
6 KB (617 words) - 07:00, 11 October 2022