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| Haller Lake | |
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| sisaɬtəb | |
 View from shore of Haller Lake | |
  Haller Lake  Haller Lake | |
| Location | North centralSeattle,Washington |
| Coordinates | 47°43′11″N122°20′00″W / 47.71972°N 122.33333°W /47.71972; -122.33333 (Haller Lake) |
| Etymology | Theodore N. Haller |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Surface area | 15 acres (6.1 ha) |
| Max. depth | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Water volume | 247 acre⋅ft (305,000 m3) |
Haller Lake (Lushootseed:sisaɬtəb) is a smalllake andneighborhood in north centralSeattle,Washington, named forTheodore N. Haller, whoplatted the neighborhood in 1905. His father,Granville O. Haller, was one of Seattle's early settlers, an army officer who amassed a large estate in the region.
The lake was formed as a result of a block of ice left behind by aretreating glacier. When the ice melted, a depression was left in the ground that was then filled with water.
The Lushootseed-language name for the lake issisaɬtəb, which means "calmed down a little."[1][2] The lake was a hunting ground and a refuge for theShilshole people during slave raids from the northern peoples like theTlingit andHaida.[1][3] Early Europeans called it Welch Lake after it was claimed in the 1880s by a British immigrant named John Welch.
The lake is located between N. 128th Street to the north, N. 122nd Street to the south, Densmore Avenue N. to the west, and Corliss Avenue N. to the east. It covers 15 acres (6.1 ha); its volume is 247 acre⋅ft (305,000 cubic metres) and its maximum depth is 36 feet (11 m). Its shoreline is private except for two public access points, the Meridian Avenue N. right-of-way on the north shore and the N. 125th Street right-of-way on the west, which features a small park. Haller Lake has a drainage area of about 280 acres (110 ha); it discharges water through an outlet control structure on the west side of the lake that drains toLake Union.[4]
The boundaries of the neighborhood are N. 145th Street to the north, beyond which is the city ofShoreline; N. Northgate Way to the south, beyond which isLicton Springs;State Route 99 (Aurora Avenue) to the west, beyond which isBitter Lake; andInterstate 5 to the east, beyond which isJackson Park.
Within the neighborhood areNorthacres Park, a large, forested public park east of the lake on 1st Avenue N.E.;Ingraham High School, north of the lake on N. 130th Street;Lakeside School, alma mater ofMicrosoft foundersBill Gates andPaul Allen, actorAdam West, and formerWashington GovernorBooth Gardner, in the northeast corner of the neighborhood; andNorthwest Hospital & Medical Center, which occupies a 33-acre (13 ha) campus southwest of the lake on N. 115th Street.
The Haller Lake Community Club, just northwest of the lake at 12579 Densmore Avenue N., was formed in 1922 as the Haller Lake Improvement Club. It features aWurlitzer theatrepipe organ installed in 1969.
Media related toHaller Lake, Seattle, Washington at Wikimedia Commons47°43′11″N122°20′05″W / 47.719619°N 122.334688°W /47.719619; -122.334688
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