Star Lake, New York Star Lake, New York Star Lake is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in the Adirondack Mountains St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 809 at the 2010 census. Star Lake is in the Town of Clifton, but part of the community is in the Town of Fine. The community is located east of a very angular-shaped lake, also called Star Lake. Star Lake was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. Star Lake is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which,
Lake Champlain 'door of the country' or 'lake to the country'. The lake is an important eastern gateway to Iroquois Confederacy lands. The lake was named after the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who encountered it in July 1609. While the ports of Burlington, Vermont, Port Henry, New York, and Plattsburgh, New York today are primarily used by small craft, ferries, and lake cruise ships, they were of substantial commercial and military importance in the 18th and 19th centuries. New France allocated concessions all along lake Champlain to French settlers and built forts to defend the waterways. In colonial times, Lake Champlain