Balaton, Minnesota Balaton, Minnesota Balaton is a city in Lyon County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 643 at the 2010 census. Balaton was platted in 1879 by the railroad. It was named after Lake Balaton, in Hungary. A post office has been in operation at Balaton since 1879. Balaton was incorporated in 1882. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 643 people, 273 households, and 168 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were
Lake Lucerne Lake Lucerne Lake Lucerne (, literally "Lake of the Four Forested Settlements", , ) is a lake in central Switzerland and the fourth largest in the country. The lake has a complicated shape, with several sharp bends and four arms. It starts in the south-north bound Reuss Valley between steep cliffs above the "Urnersee" from Flüelen towards Brunnen to the north before it makes a sharp bend to the west where it continues into the "Gersauer Becken". Here is also the deepest point of the lake with . Even more west of it is the "Buochser Bucht", but the lake