About Lake Butte Des Mortes, Wisconsin Real Estate
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Welcome to Lake Butte Des Mortes, Wisconsin!
Lake Butte des Mortes (BEW-de-MORE) is an 8,800-acre lake located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and is part of the Winnebago Pool (also known as the Winnebago System). The lake is fed by the Fox River in the southwest and the Wolf River draining from Lake Winneconne in the northwest, and drains via the Fox River southeast into Lake Winnebago. Much of the lake is flooded marshland created by the damming of the Fox River downstream in Menasha in the 1800s, which helps explain the lake's flat and shallow character. Butte des Mortes is 8,857 acres with a maximum depth of 19 feet.. U.S. Route 41 has a bridge through the lake. The city of Oshkosh, Wisconsin lies between Lake Butte des Mortes and Lake Winnebago.
The larger of two lakes with the same name was named for the use of a hill on its banks as a cemetery by local Menominee, Sauk and Fox Indians during the 18th century. Fur trader Louis Porlier wrote that the "Grand Butte des Mortes (great hill of the dead) was so named by the French because it was a higher point of land than usual in this particular region of the Wolf valley, and was the principal burying ground for the Sacs and Foxes and the Menomonees after them; though the latter tribe had practically abandoned it as a general cemetery before the opening of the nineteenth century and buried their dead at various points wherever mortal disease or accident befell them. When the band was off upon its hunt and a member died, the deceased was hung up in a tree on a scaffolding of saplings and left there until his party set out for their return when they would gather the bodies of their deceased friends and bury them in the common field at Grand Butte des Mortes. The brave was always interred in a single grave with his tools and implements of the chase and the earth slightly rounded over the grave, as in the manner of the whites; no other mounds ever existed at this place or wholesale burial occurred under other circumstances."
Lake Butte des Mortes is popular among both fishermen and recreational boaters during the warm weather months, and with ice fishermen in the winter. A marked navigation channel facilitates passage across the lake from the inflow of the Wolf River to the west (connecting to Lake Poygan), to the outflow of the Fox River east to Lake Winnebago.
A variety of fish species can be found in the lake including walleye, drum, white bass, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, carp, flathead and channel catfish, northern pike, crappie, yellow perch, bluegill and sturgeon. Sunset Point, located near the U.S. Highway 41 bridge, is one of the most popular walleye fishing spots on the entire Winnebago System. The 4-lane divided freeway bridge carrying US-41 across the lake, consists primarily of a causeway dissecting the east end of the lake.
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