Bouchard Lake Explained

Bouchard Lake
Pushpin Map:USA Montana
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Montana
Coords:47.2205°N -115.0005°W
Type:Natural/Fresh Water Lake
Outflow:outlet northwards to Clark Fork River
Basin Countries:United States
Length:2460feet
Width:315feet
Area:16.2acres
Elevation:2943feet

Bouchard Lake is an L-shaped body of water covering sixteen acres in Mineral County, Montana in the United States. The lake is located five miles northwest of Superior, Montana in the valley of the Clark Fork River.

Geology

Bouchard Lake has given its name to the Bouchard Formation, a geologic unit "composed principally of interbedded micaceous quartzite and quartzose argillite that conformably overlies the Sloway formation" exposed near the lake.