Huron
Huron names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Huron LAKE, one of the five great lakes of North America
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LAKE, one of the five great lakes of North America, belonging to the basin of St. Lawrence, second in size only to Lake Superior, and intermediate in position between that lake and Michigan, on the N. W. and W., and Lakes Erie and Ontario, on the S. and S. E. It is of a somewhat triangular shape, surrounded W. and S. W. by the State of Michigan, and all the other sides by the Province of Ontario, and divided into two unequal parts by a long peninsula and the Manitouline chain of islands, the parts to the N. and E. of which are called North Channel and Georgian Bay. The total length of Lake Huron, N. to S., is estimated at 280 miles, and its greatest breadth about 190 miles; area, estimated, 25,000 square miles. Elevation above the surface of the ocean, 596 feet. Greatest depth toward its W. shore at least 1,000 feet, and its mean depth is estinated at 900 feet, or about 300 feet below the level of the Atlantic. In various parts it abounds with islands, their total number being said to exceed 32,000, the largest, Manitoulin, "Evil Spirit" Island, nearly 90 miles long, and in one part almost 30 miles wide. Lake Huron receives the superabundant water of Lake Superior by the river St. Mary, at its N. W. angle, and those of Michigan at Michilimackinac; and discharges its own Lake by the St. Clair soward. Erikes Nipissing and Simcoe communicate with it by the French and Severn rivers.
Huron LAKE raising region and is the division headquarters of
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LAKE raising region and is the division headquarters of the Northwestern railroad. It has flour mills, machine shops, grain elevators, and other industries. It is the seat of Huron College and has a high and public buildings. Pop school . (1910) 5,791; (1920) 8,302.
Huron a city of South Dakota
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of South Dakota, the county seat of Beadle co. It is on the Chicago and Northwestern and the Great Northern railroads. It is the center of an important agricultural and stock-
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's 1921 figures for Lake Huron have been tightened by modern sounding: the lake's greatest depth is about 750 feet, not "at least 1,000," and its mean depth is roughly 195 feet rather than the 900 feet claimed (which would indeed have put the bottom below sea level); area is now given as about 23,000 square miles and surface elevation as 577 feet. The lake itself has been transformed biologically since 1921 by invaders the article could not foresee hrough the Great Lossakes' new shipping locks, notably the sea lamprey, which devastated lake trout from the 1930s, and zebra and quagga mussels from the late 1980s, which have remade the food web and helped collapse the whitefish and alewife fisheries. The Ontario shore's "30,000 Islands" and Manitoulin, still the world's largest freshwater-lake island, are as described. Huron, South Dakota, has kept growing, from 8,302 in 1920 to roughly 14,000 today, its economy now anchored by turkey processing and a sizeable Karen refugee community; Huron College, named in the entry, survived as Huron University but closed in 2005.
Written for this edition, 2026.