Pequot Lakes, Minnesota
| Pequot Lakes, Minnesota | |
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| City | |
Downtown Pequot Lakes
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 Location of Pequot Lakes within Crow Wing County, Minnesota |
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| Coordinates: 46°36′14″N 94°18′57″W / 46.60389°N 94.31583°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Minnesota |
| County | Crow Wing |
| Area | |
| • Total | 18.14 sq mi (46.98 km2) |
| • Land | 16.33 sq mi (42.29 km2) |
| • Water | 1.81 sq mi (4.69 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,283 ft (391 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 2,162 |
| • Estimate (2013) | 2,234 |
| • Density | 132.4/sq mi (51.1/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 56472 |
| Area code(s) | 218 |
| FIPS code | 27-50416 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0649276 |
| Website | www.pequotlakes-mn.gov |
Pequot Lakes (/ˈpiːkwɑːt ˈleɪks/ PEE-kwaht LAYKS) is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,162 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Brainerd Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Pequot Lakes was platted in March 1900. It was named by a postal official for the first Indian-sounding name he thought of, which is the name of a former tribe of Algonquian Indians in eastern Connecticut. A post office was established at Pequot Lakes in 1896.
According to the Pequot Lakes Heritage Preservation Commission, the city once called Sibley and Frogtown was renamed as Pequot. In 1900, Walter and Flora Brown filed their plat for the E 1/2 of the SW 1/4 section 10 in T136N-R29W under the title Pequot. The Pequot Indians are a tribe that used to dominate southeastern New England before the English colonists arrived. While no Pequot tribe members lived in Minnesota, they spoke an Algonquian language related to that of the local Chippewa (Ojibwe) tribes. Author Herman Melville named his lead ship in his novel Moby-Dick as the Pequod.
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