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Messick Lake is a small seasonal lake near the east bank of the Feather River, between Arboga and Plumas Lake. An 1873 map shows a place called Mesick in the vicinity of Pearson, to which the name of the lake is probably related.1

Footnotes

1. California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State by David L. Durham. Word Dancer Press, 1998