Anyone know why the popular mapping software apps show a body of water called "Creighan Lake" in the Slidebrook basin?

Google: http://tinyurl.com/2y6a26

Microsoft: http://tinyurl.com/2hq2ko

Hmmmmmm...never heard of it nor is it on the topo

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=44.14968&lon=-72.89855&datum=nad83&u=4&layer=DRG25&size=l&s=48

The lake also does not appear on the 1921 USGS map:

http://historical.maptech.com/getImage.cfm?fname=linc21sw.jpg&state=VT

At least we know that it didn't disappear recently.

My guess is that the lake was put on the map as an intentional error. If a map from some other company shows this "imaginary" lake then that would provide proof of copyright violation. Back in the day, gas companies did this on their (free) maps all the time.

As a child, me and all of my friends would hike up into Slidebrook and hang out at Creighan Lake. Sometimes we would go swimming, other times we would bring up our fishing gear. Good times had by all....

Seriously though, it doesn't appear on Google Earth either. If what SRO says is true, then it looks like Microsoft copied Google's maps (since Google's was around first I would assume that this is the way it went down). I somehow doubt that the companies got together and shared their maps.

skibum1321 wrote:

As a child, me and all of my friends would hike up into Slidebrook and hang out at Creighan Lake. Sometimes we would go swimming, other times we would bring up our fishing gear. Good times had by all....

Summer in Slide Brook, circa 1965.



As you can see, Creighan Lake was near the top of the ridge.

First, Creighan Lake is not in the Basin, it rests on the shoulder above Mount P-Tex and drains into Clay Brook, not Slide Brook. Second, thanks a lot for outing the last secret stash in the entire MRV.

John

p.s. There may actually be a lake developing there today.