Fourcorner Lake
{{short description|Lake in Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada}}
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| location = Haliburton County, Ontario
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| coordinates = {{coord|45.160|-78.279|region:CA-ON_type:waterbody|display=inline,title}}
| type = lake
| etymology = from its location at a quadripoint
| part_of = Ottawa River drainage basin
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| outflow = Fourcorner Creek
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| area = {{convert|99.73|ha|acre}}
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| elevation = {{convert|442|m}}{{cite web|url= https://earth.google.com/web/|title= Google Earth|access-date= 2020-09-05}}
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Fourcorner Lake ({{langx|fr|lac Fourcorner}}) is a lake in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County in Central Ontario, Canada.{{cite cgndb|id= FBFCL|title= Fourcorner Lake|accessdate= 2020-09-05}}{{cite web|url= http://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html |title= Toporama (on-line map and search)|work= Atlas of Canada|publisher= Natural Resources Canada|access-date= 2020-09-05}}{{cite web|url= http://www.gisapplication.lrc.gov.on.ca/Geonames/Index.html?site=Geographic_Names&viewer=Geonames&locale=en-US |title= Ontario Geonames GIS (on-line map and search)|publisher= Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry|date= 2014|access-date= 2020-09-05}}{{cite map|url= http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=6576|title= Restructured municipalities - Ontario map #5|year= 2006|series= Restructuring Maps of Ontario|publisher= Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing|accessdate= 2020-09-05|archive-date= 2020-05-11|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200511165309/http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=6576|url-status= dead}}{{cite map|url= http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/publications/official-road-map/pdfs/map-5.pdf |format= PDF|title= Map 5|series= Official road map of Ontario|publisher= Ministry of Transportation of Ontario|scale= 1 : 700,000|date= 2018-01-01|accessdate= 2020-09-05}} It is partly within Algonquin Provincial Park and is in the Ottawa River drainage basin. The lake takes its name from its location at a quadripoint, the junction point of four geographic townships: Harburn at northwest, Bruton at the northeast, Harcourt at the southeast, and Dudley at the southwest.
Geography
Fourcorner Lake has an area of {{convert|99.73|ha|acre}} and lies at an elevation of {{convert|442|m}}. It is {{convert|1750|m}} long and {{convert|1050|m}} wide. The nearest named community is Kennaway, {{convert|8.0|km}} to the east. The portion of the lake in geographic Bruton Township, that is the northeast portion, is the part of the lake that is within Algonquin Provincial Park.
There are two unnamed inflows: one at the southwest; and one at the north, arriving from the direction of Weepine Lake. The primary outflow, at the east end of the lake, is Fourcorner Creek. Fourcorner Creek flows via Benoir Lake, the York River and the Madawaska River to the Ottawa River.
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