Two Sisters Lake

Ten percent of Oneida County is water. Not shoreline or wetland, open water: eleven hundred lakes and rivers inside one county.

There are 1,129 of them, covering sixty eight thousand acres and carrying thirteen hundred miles of shoreline. Most are small. Eighty two percent come in under fifty acres and nearly four hundred are less than ten feet deep. Two Sisters, at 719 acres and sixty three feet at its deepest, counts as one of the bigger ones.

The naming up here is plain enough. Two Sisters is two basins joined at a narrows, which is exactly what you are looking at. Tomahawk Lake next door got its name because somebody studied the outline and saw a tomahawk. In a district with more lakes than it has names for them, you take the shape and use it.