Alimagnet Lake
lake in the state of Minnesota, United States
Alimagnet Lake is a lake in Dakota County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The lake stands at the border of Apple Valley and Burnsville within the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. The name Alimagnet is supposedly a portmanteau derived from the first names of Alice McQuillen, Margaret "Maggie" Davis, and Nettie Judd, three young girls who were playing near the yet unnamed lake in the 1860s when surveyors asked their names and subsequently named the lake after them.
Alimagnet Park
The surrounding forestland is a public park. The lake is a popular fishing spot.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Alimagnet Lake” is lake in the state of Minnesota, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Alimagnet, Lake and lake, not as a finished interpretation.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q114712211. Authority coordinates are 44.749, -93.249. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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