Jordan Pond

Infobox lake
lake_name = Jordan Pond
image_lake = Jordan Pond in Bar Harbor.jpg
caption_lake = View from the Jordon Pond Tea-House
image_bathymetry =
caption_bathymetry =
location = Hancock County, Maine
coords = coord|44|19|54.6|N|68|15|18.4|W|type:waterbody_region:US-ME|display=inline,title
type = oligotrophic tarn
inflow = Deer Brook
outflow = Jordan Stream
catchment = convert|1.92|sqmi|abbr=on
basin_countries = United States
length = convert|1.2|mi|abbr=on
width = convert|0.4|mi|abbr=on
area = convert|186|acre|abbr=on
depth = convert|84|ft|abbr=on
max-depth = convert|150|ft|abbr=on
volume = convert|14097|acre.ft|abbr=on|lk=on
residence_time = 6 years
shore =
elevation = convert|273|ft|abbr=on
islands =
cities = Mount Desert

Jordan Pond is an oligotrophic tarn in Acadia National Park near the town of Bar Harbor, Maine. It covers convert|187|acre, with a maximum depth of convert|150|ft and a shoreline of 3.6 |miles. cite journal |last=Moore |first=Joshua F. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2008 |month=June |title=Acadia's Forgotten Lakes |journal=Down East: The Magazine of Maine |volume= |issue= |pages=19 |id= |url=http://www.downeast.com/Down-East-Magazine/June-2008/Acadias-Forgotten-Lakes/ |accessdate= |quote= ] [cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/archive/acad/flow/ponds.html |title=Watersheds - Ponds |accessdate=2008-07-29 |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=2000-08-12 |format= |work= |publisher=National Park Service |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] cite journal |last=Kandell |first=Jonathan |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2008 |month=May |title= Acadia Country |journal=Smithsonian magazine |volume= |issue= |pages= |id= |url= |accessdate=2008-07-29 |quote= ]

The pond was formed by the Wisconsin Ice Sheet during the last glacial period. It is flanked on the west by Penobscot Mountain and to the northeast by the two mountains known as the Bubbles. The southern end, and outflow, are limited by the natural Jordan Pond moraine, which has been supplemented by a small dam. cite web |url=http://www.pearl.maine.edu/Browseglobal.asp?PNI=LAKES_STREAMS&NoOfInputs=2&inputname0=WATERCODE&inputvalue0=4608&inputoperator0=et&inputsqlop0=and&inputname1=ENTITYTYPE&inputvalue1=LAKE&inputoperator1=et&inputsqlop1=and&mode=DATA&TABLENAME=ADMIN_GMC03&action=DISPLAYFIELDS&PCounter=1&BPoint=1 |title=Maine Lakes: Morphometry and Geographic Information |accessdate=2008-07-30 |author= Maine Depts. of Environmental Protection and Inland Fisheries & Wildlife |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year=2006 |month=March |format= |work= |publisher=Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, The University of Maine |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] [cite web |url=http://maine.gov/doc/nrimc/mgs/explore/bedrock/acadia/history.htm |title=Summary of Glacial History |accessdate=2008-07-30 |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=2008-01-11 |format= |work=The Geology of Mount Desert Island: A Visitor's Guide to the Geology of Acadia National Park |publisher=Maine Department of Conservation, Maine Geological Survey |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

The pond has clear water, with visibility normally convert|46|ft and occasions of up to convert|60|ft recorded, the deepest in Maine. It serves as the water supply for the village of Seal Harbor. It does not experience dissolved oxygen depletion in the lake depths Some types of boating are permitted, but humans and pets must stay out of the water. cite web |url=http://www.pearl.maine.edu/LakeInformation/WatershedSummary.asp?link=/DADataUpload/PDF/Narratives/4608.htm |title=Water Quality Summary |accessdate=2008-07-30 |author= Maine Department of Environmental Protection |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year=2006 |month=March |format= |work= |publisher=Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, The University of Maine |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

Park Usage

Park officials estimate that roughly 60% of park visitors will stop by the pond, primarily the tea-house at the southern end, at some point in their visit. The pond is ringed by a walking trail, from which branch off trails to or over several other park features. One of the park's original carriage trails runs along a ridge adjoining the pond.

The Jordan family of Seal Harbor, for whom the pond is named, built a farmhouse near the pond. In the 1870s a restaurant known as the Jordan Pond House was built. Under the management of the McIntires, which ran from 1895 to 1946, the restaurant became a regular location for high society events. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. purchased the restaurant and gave it to the National Park Service. The original building was destroyed by fire in June 1979, and a new building built through private fund raising. [cite web |url=http://www.jordanpond.com/history.html |title=History |accessdate=2008-07-29 |last=Balyeat |first=Steve |year=2005 |publisher=Jordan Pond House Resaurant |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |author= |coauthors= |title=Jordan Pond House Burned |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00F17FD395D12728DDDAB0A94DE405B898BF1D3 |format= |work= |publisher=New York Times |location= |id= |pages= |page= |date= |accessdate=2008-07-29 |language= |quote= |archiveurl= |archivedate= ]

Flora and Fauna

Jordan Pond was for a period the type locality for the type specimen for the quillwort species described by Alvah Augustus Eaton and formerly known as "Isoetes macróspora var. heteróspora" or "Isoetes heterospora". It was then thought to be located only in this pond. [cite book |last=Gray |first=Asa |authorlink=Asa Gray |coauthors= |editor=Benjamin Lincoln Robinson and Merritt Lyndon Fernald |others= |title=Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada |origdate= |origyear=1847 |origmonth= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=KhYWAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA8-PA204&dq=%22Jordan+Pond%22+-wiki+-blog&lr=&as_brr=1#PRA8-PA204,M1 |format= |accessdate=2008-07-30 |edition=Seventh edition - Illustrated |series= |volume= |date= |year=1908 |month= |publisher=American Book Company |location=New York |language= |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=59 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ] [cite book |last=Underwood |first=Lucien Marcus |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=Contributions from the Department of Botany of Columbia University - Vol. 9 Nos. 201-225 |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=KhYWAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA8-PA204&dq=%22Jordan+Pond%22+-wiki+-blog&lr=&as_brr=1#PRA8-PA204,M1 |format= |accessdate=2008-07-29 |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series=Contributions from the Department of Botany of Columbia University - No. 225 |volume= |date= |year=1906 |month= |publisher= |location=New York |language= |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=204 |chapter=American Ferns - VI: Species Added to the Flora of the United States From 1900 to 1905 |chapterurl= |quote="Isoetes Heterospora" A. A. Eaton, Fernwort Papers 8. 1900. (Type from Jordan Pond, Mt. Desert Island, Maine, "Rand.") Known only from its type locality. ] This is now considered to be a synonym for "Isoetes lacustris", which is found in both North America and Europe. [cite web |url=http://www.northernontarioflora.ca/chklst.cfm?speciesid=1005773 |title=Synonymy - Isoëtes lacustris |accessdate=2008-07-30 |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work=Northern Ontario Plant Database |publisher= |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] Four other quillwort species are also found in the lake, along with three species of pondweed, two species each of rushes, bur-reeds, and carnivorous bladderworts, and at least six other species of plants. [cite web |url=http://www.pearl.maine.edu/Browseglobal.asp?PNI=LAKES_STREAMS&NoOfInputs=2&inputname0=WATERCODE&inputvalue0=4608&inputoperator0=et&inputsqlop0=and&inputname1=ENTITYTYPE&inputvalue1=LAKE&inputoperator1=et&inputsqlop1=and&mode=DATA&TABLENAME=ADMIN_MABP02_MDI_PLANTS&action=DISPLAYFIELDS&PCounter=2&BPoint=1 |title=Freshwater Plant Surveys: Mount Desert Island |accessdate=2008-07-30 |author=Craig Green et al., College of the Atlantic |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, The University of Maine |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

Fish species in the lake include landlocked Atlantic salmon, lake trout, brook trout, rainbow smelt, four species of minnow, banded killifish, three-spined stickleback, pumpkinseed sunfish, and the American eel. The landlocked salmon, lake trout, smelt, sticklebacks, and at least one species of minnow are known to have been introduced and/or stocked by humans.cite web |url=http://www.state.me.us/ifw/fishing/lakesurvey_maps/hancock/images/jordan_pond.pdf |title=Jordan Pond |accessdate=2008-07-30 |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year=1999 |month= |format=PDF |work= |publisher=Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] [cite journal |last=Stone |first=Jennifer |authorlink= |coauthors=Le, Bao C, Moring, John R |year=2001 |month= |title=Freshwater fishes of Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine |journal=Northeastern Naturalist |volume= |issue=2001 |pages= |id= |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3845/is_200101/ai_n8949147/pg_3 |accessdate=2008-07-23 |quote= ]

External Links

* [http://www.pearl.maine.edu/Lake2.asp?Watercode=4608 Lake Overview and Data Access] compiled and organized by the University of Maine

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