{{Short description|Lake in Minnesota, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox body of water | name = Chisago Lake | native_name = | native_name_lang = | other_name = <!-- Images --> | image = | alt = | caption = | image_bathymetry = | alt_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = <!-- Stats --> | location = Chisago County, Minnesota | group = | coordinates = {{coord|45|21|37|N|92|52|16|W|region:US-MN_type:waterbody|display=inline,title}} | type = lake | etymology = Ojibwe language name for the lake | part_of = | inflow = | rivers = | outflow = | oceans = | catchment = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | basin_countries = | agency = | designation = | date-built = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} For man-made and other recent bodies of water --> | engineer = | date-flooded = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} For man-made and other recent bodies of water --> | length = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | width = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | area = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | depth = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | max-depth = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | volume = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | residence_time = | salinity = | shore = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | elevation = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | temperature_high = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | temperature_low = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | frozen = | islands = | islands_category = | sections = | trenches = | benches = | cities = <!-- Map --> | pushpin_map = Minnesota | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = Location of lake in Minnesota. | pushpin_map_caption = <!-- Below --> | website = | reference = }} '''Chisago Lake''' is a lake in Chisago County, Minnesota, in the United States.<ref>{{GNIS|641170}}</ref> "Chisago" is a name derived from two Ojibwe language words meaning "large" and "beautiful".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Aiken|first1=Charles Curry|last2=Kane|first2=Joseph Nathan|title=The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010|url=https://archive.org/details/americancounties0000kane/|year=2005|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780810850361|page=54}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n126 107]}}</ref>
Chisago Lake holds numerous species of fish. Northern pike, largemouth bass, crappie, perch, walleye, and panfish make up the majority of the lake's fish population, although some muskellunge and common carp have also been found in surveys by the DNR.
== See also == * List of Minnesota placenames of Native American origin
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Category:Lakes of Minnesota Category:Lakes of Chisago County, Minnesota Category:Minnesota placenames of Native American origin