Nixon Lake is, of course, not named for Richard Nixon. It was named long before Richard Nixon was born half a country away in 1913; the online Minnesota Place Names directory states that it and its neighbor Cornell Lake were named “for early settlers” of Wright County sometime in the 1850s. Still, it’s impossible now to think of the name “Nixon” without thinking of the 37th President.
I am not a brook: meet Minnesota’s Nixon Lake by Andy Sturdevant
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