Fargher Lake is an unincorporated community in Clark County, Washington, United States.

Fargher Lake
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 45°53′18″N 122°30′51″W
Country	United States
State	Washington
County	Clark
Elevation	679 ft (207 m)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
Area code(s)	360
GNIS feature ID	1504828[1]

It is Located around 7 mi (11 km) northwest from the Town of Yacolt.

The settlement, as well as a former lake located nearby, both share the name "Fargher Lake".

History

The lake was originally named Hard Hack Swamp. Horatio and Fred Farghuar, who immigrated in the 1860s from the Isle of Wight, settled near the lake. They later changed the spelling of the name to "Fargher".[2]

The lake and surrounding area was renamed Fargher Lake, and the lake was drained sometime during the early 1960s.[2] The drained lake bed was used then for farming and currently contains blueberry fields.

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