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{{Short description|Lake and neighborhood in Seattle, Washington}}
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| caption            = View from shore of Haller Lake
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| location           = North central [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
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| area               = {{convert|15|acre|ha|1|abbr=on}}
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| elevation          = {{convert|114|m|abbr=on|order=flip}}
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[[File:Seattle Map - Haller Lake.png|right|thumb|Haller Lake, within Seattle]]'''Haller Lake''' ({{Langx|lut|sisaɬtəb}}) is a small [[lake]] and [[List of neighborhoods in Seattle|neighborhood]] in north central [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], named for [[Theodore N. Haller]], who [[Plat|platted]] 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 a [[Vashon Glaciation|retreating 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 is {{Langx|lut|sisaɬtəb|label=none}}, which means "calmed down a little."<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Thrush |first=Coll |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcwnvq3 |title=Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place |date=2007 |publisher=[[University of Washington Press]] |isbn=9780295741345 |edition=2nd |series=Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books |location=Seattle |pages=221|jstor=j.ctvcwnvq3 }}</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last1=Hilbert |first1=Vi |author-link=Vi Hilbert |title=sdaʔdaʔ gʷəɬ dibəɬ ləšucid ʔacaciɬtalbixʷ - Puget Sound Geography |last2=Miller |first2=Jay |last3=Zahir |first3=Zalmai |publisher=Lushootseed Press |others=Original Manuscript from [[T.T. Waterman]] |year=2001 |isbn=979-8750945764 |location= |pages=56 |language=en}}</ref> The lake was a hunting ground and a refuge for the [[Shilshole people]] during slave raids from the northern peoples like the [[Tlingit]] and [[Haida people|Haida]].<ref name=":0" />{{Sfn|Thrush|2007|p=107-8}} 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 {{convert|15|acre|ha}}; its volume is {{convert|247|acre.ft|m3|abbr=in}} and its maximum depth is {{convert|36|ft|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 {{convert|280|acre|ha}}; it discharges water through an outlet control structure on the west side of the lake that drains to [[Lake Union]].<ref name=Waters2007>{{cite web | title=City of Seattle: State of the Waters 2007|url=http://www.seattle.gov/util/groups/public/@spu/@conservation/documents/webcontent/spu01_003414.pdf| page=48}}</ref>

The boundaries of the neighborhood are N. 145th Street to the north, beyond which is the city of [[Shoreline, Washington|Shoreline]]; N. Northgate Way to the south, beyond which is [[Licton Springs, Seattle|Licton Springs]]; [[Washington State Route 99|State Route 99]] ([[Aurora Avenue]]) to the west, beyond which is [[Bitter Lake (Seattle)|Bitter Lake]]; and [[Interstate 5 in Washington|Interstate 5]] to the east, beyond which is [[Jackson Park (Seattle)|Jackson Park]].

Within the neighborhood are [[Northacres 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 (Seattle, Washington)|Lakeside School]], alma mater of [[Microsoft]] founders [[Bill Gates]] and [[Paul Allen]], actor [[Adam West]], and former [[Washington (state)|Washington]] Governor [[Booth Gardner]], in the northeast corner of the neighborhood; and [[Northwest Hospital & Medical Center]], which occupies a {{convert|33|acre|ha|adj=on}} 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 a [[Wurlitzer]] theatre [[pipe organ]] installed in 1969.

==References==
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*{{cite gnis |id=1505353 |name=Haller Lake}} (ID 1505353 – the lake.)
*{{cite gnis |id=1512261 |name=Haller Lake}} (ID 1512261 – the populated place.)
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==External links==
*{{commons category-inline|Haller Lake, Seattle, Washington}}
*[http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3455 Seattle Neighborhoods: Haller Lake -- Thumbnail History] from [[HistoryLink]]
*[http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/eap/lakes/wq/docs/lkhalki1.html Haller Lake] information from the Washington State Department of Ecology
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120726214950/http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/Planning/Neighborhood_Planning/NeighborhoodPlanUpdates/BroadviewBitterLakeHallerLake/default.asp Broadview / Bitter Lake / Haller Lake neighborhood planning] from the Seattle Dept. of Planning and Development
*[http://www.hallerlakecommunityclub.org/ Haller Lake Community Club]

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