Townsend Lake
| Townsend Lake | |
|---|---|
| Location | Porcupine Hills Provincial Park, Saskatchewan |
| Coordinates | 52°28′58″N 101°44′19″W / 52.4828°N 101.7385°W |
| Catchment area | Woody River |
| Basin countries | Canada |
| Surface area | 173.5 ha (429 acres) |
| Max. depth | 10.4 m (34 ft) |
| Shore length1 | 7.2 km (4.5 mi) |
| Surface elevation | 691 m (2,267 ft) |
| 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. | |
Townsend Lake is a lake in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It is located in the east-central part of the province in the Porcupine Hills and Porcupine Provincial Forest. The lake is in the Woody River Block of Porcupine Hills Provincial Park. Highway 980 provides access to the east side of the lake and its amenities. Several small creeks feed into the lake from the surrounding hills, lakes, and muskeg. The outflow is a short river at the eastern end of the lake that flows into the western end of Woody Lake.
The lake is named in memory of Flight Sergeant Robert Wilfred Ernest Townsend who died fighting in World War II on 29 July 1944. Since 1947 Saskatchewan started naming lakes after fallen soldiers and now there are more than 4,000 such lakes in the province.