Maple Plain, Minnesota

Maple Plain Library is a public Hennepin County library in Maple Plain, Minnesota.

Independence is a rural city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. Most of the city is agricultural land with dense woods and numerous lakes. It is named after Lake Independence, a large lake on the community's eastern boundary. The population was 3,504 at the 2010 census. U.S. Highway 12 serves as a main route in the community.

Loretto is a small rural city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 650 at the 2010 census.

Lake Sarah is a lake in Hennepin County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.Lake Sarah was named for the love interest of a pioneer settler.

The Orono School District (ISD #278) is a Minnesota public school district located in the west-metro area of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The school district, organized in 1949, serves part or all of the following areas: Independence, Long Lake, Maple Plain, Medina, Minnetonka Beach, Orono, and Wayzata. The district superintendent is Dr. Kristine Flesher.

Orono ( ORR-ə-noh, ORR-noh) is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States west of Minneapolis. Located on the north shore of Lake Minnetonka, Orono is one of the city’s most upscale and wealthiest neighborhoods and also known for its sparse suburban character and abundant wildlife.The population was 7,437 at the 2010 census. Orono is in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area.

Dutch Lake is a lake located in the state of Minnesota. It was named for its early German population. It is a 159.50 acres (64.5474 ha) acre lake that is west-southwest of Minneapolis-St. Paul in the Minneapolis suburb of Mound and Minnetrista. It has an average depth of 15.15 feet (4.62 m) and a maximum depth of 45 ft (14 m). Slow Creek, its un-navigable outflow is on its northeast shore. It connects the lake to Lake Minnetonka. It is home to a variety of fish including Black, Yellow, and Brown Bullhead, Black Crappie, Bluegill, Hybrid Sunfish, Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Pumpkinseed Sunfish, and Yellow Perch. Much of the Northern shore is owned by Camp Christmas Tree summer day camp.

Mound is a city in western Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 9,052 at the 2010 census. Mound was the birthplace of the Tonka truck that is named after Lake Minnetonka, which the eastern part of town sits on. Mound is 22 miles (35 km) west of Minneapolis, the county seat.

Langdon Bay Creek is a creek in Mound, Minnesota, United States. It is the outflow for, and connects, Lake Langdon (or Bay) to Mound's Lost Lake, which is part of Lake Minnetonka. Its length is perhaps 200 feet (61 m) long and it runs west to east. It is unnavigable and passes under Commerce Boulevard through a culvert. It has also been known as Sollie's Creek, named after the uncles of the Andrews Sisters who owned a grocery store to the south of it. Its part of the Langdon Lake subwatershed of the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (MCWD), with the drainage from about 1,055 acres (4.27 km2) running through it. Other lakes in the subwatershed whose outflows eventually pass through it are Saunders Lake, Black Lake, and Mound's old sewer plant holding pond.

Lake Langdon in Mound, Minnesota, has an area of 144 acres (0.6 km2). Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (MCWD) charts show its maximum depth of 38 feet (12 m), though it would be classified as a shallow lake with a mean depth of 8.3 feet (2.5 m). It is named for R. V. Langdon, the first township clerk. It is located west of Commerce Boulevard and south of Lynwood Boulevard. Boats on the lake cannot navigate to the nearby Lake Minnetonka, though it overflows into Lost Lake, part of the Big Lake, through Langdon Bay Creek. It also serves as an outlet for Saunders Lake, to its west. The lake has a watershed area to surface area ratio of 6.5:1, meaning that it drains an area about 6½ times its size. The lake (or bay as it is sometimes called) has an over abundance of phosphorus, that probably resulted from it being downstream from Mound's old sewer plant. The plant closed back in the late 1970s. Phosphorus is a catalyst that can contribute to excessive plant growth. Though the lake's MCWD Report Card shows a significant drop off of the phosphorus levels over the past 20 years, it is still a problem. A higher outflow from Langdon could lower the phosphorus level, but its water clarity remains poor, despite the fact that it was treated with Alum in 1998.

Spring Park is a city nestled on the shores of Lake Minnetonka in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States and is about 20 miles west of Minneapolis. The population was 1,669 at the 2010 census.The small town is rich in history. What is now Spring Park was once the grounds of Hotel Del Otero, a summer lake resort built by James J. Hill.It was incorporated in 1951 and at that time had a population of a little over 200.

Cooks Bay, in Mound, Minnesota, is one of many bays that make up Lake Minnetonka. Its area is about 550 acres (223 ha). It is west of Island Park, and east of Mound's Highlands neighborhood. Between the 1870s until the 1920s, Cooks Bay was known for its family hotels including Chapman House, Bartlett Place, Buena Vista Hotel, Hotel Kern, Hotel Dewey, and the Sunset Villa. Surfside Park, on the north shore of Cook's Bay, was once the home of Surfside Casino, a popular destination that began as the Chapman Boathouse in the 1870s. Today, Cook's Bay has a public boat launch located at the park, and the old Mound Depot relocated in 1967. For more about the Westonka area, visit westonkahistoricalsociety.org and the museum at 5341 Maywood Rd., Mound MN, open Saturdays, 10-2.