Spirit Lake (Iowa)

Dickinson County

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Spirit Lake is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Dickinson County in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Iowa.

Geography

Spirit Lake is located on the western shore of East Okoboji Lake in the middle of the Iowa Great Lakes region mentioned in northwest Iowa. The state line into Minnesota is located about 10 km north of the city, South Dakota starts 122 km to the west.

Spirit Lake is located at 43 ° 25'23 " north latitude and 95 ° 6'15 " west longitude and covers an area of 8.7 km ².

Neighboring towns are Orleans (4.2 km north-east ), Arnolds Park (7 km south), Okoboji (7.4 km southwest) and Triboji Beach (5,8 km to the west ).

The nearest large towns are Iowa's capital Des Moines (324 km south-east ), Nebraska's largest city, Omaha (343 km southwest), South Dakota's largest city of Sioux Falls (136 miles west) and Minnesota's largest city Minneapolis (290 km northeast).

Traffic

By Spirit Lake runs from northeast to southwest of U.S. Highway 71 at the Iowa Highway 9 meets in the north- east of the city.

6.7 km southwest of Spirit Lake is located on the Airport Okoboji a small airfield.

Population

In the census in 2010 in Spirit Lake had 4840 inhabitants.