Description
Killdeer Lake is located on Kenai Peninsula between Plover and Shadura Lakes, 13 mi. NE of Kenai; Cook Inlet Low.
History
Named about 1963 by officials of Kenai National Moose Range, probably for the Killdeer or Noisy Plover (Oxyechus vociferus), a shore bird, "which makes itself exceedingly useful by destroying great quantities of noxious insects (notably mosquitoes)" (in Pearson, 1944, pt. 1, p. 261).