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Devil's Kitchen Lake is an 810-acre (3.3 km 2) reservoir in southern Illinois, created by the damming of Grassy Creek, a tributary of Crab Orchard Lake and the Big Muddy River. Most of the lake is located in Williamson County, southwest of Marion, Illinois. The lake is accessible from Interstate 57. Two arms of the lake penetrate into adjacent ...
Rend Lake is a 13-mile (20.9 km) long, 3-mile (4.8 km) wide reservoir located in Southern Illinois in Franklin and Jefferson Counties near the town of Benton.It contains 18,900 acres (76 km 2) of water, stores 185,000 acre-feet (228,000,000 m 3) of water, and supplies over 15 million gallons of water per day to 300,000 persons in over 60 communities.
Cedar Lake (Illinois) / 37.6399°N 89.2797°W / 37.6399; -89.2797. 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Cedar Lake is a 1,750-acre (7.0 km²) reservoir in southern Illinois, created by the damming of Cedar Creek, a tributary of the Big Muddy River, in 1974. The lake is located in Jackson County, southwest of Carbondale, Illinois.
36 mi (58 km) Surface elevation. 499 ft (152 m) [1] 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Little Grassy Lake is a 1,200 acres (490 ha) reservoir in southern Illinois, created by the damming of Little Grassy Creek, a tributary of Crab Orchard Lake and the Big Muddy River. Most of the lake is located in Williamson County, southeast of ...
Channel Lake, Lake County. Lake Charles (reservoir), Lake County. Lake Charleston (reservoir), Coles County. Clear Lake, Sangamon County. Clinton Lake (reservoir), DeWitt County. Coffeen Lake (reservoir), Montgomery County. Countryside Lake (reservoir), Lake County. 42°15′09″N 88°02′36″W / 42.25250°N 88.04333°W / 42. ...
Kinkaid Lake was built in 1968 with an average depth of 39 feet (12 m), although the area near the dam (on the southernmost tip) is approximately 80 feet (24 m) deep. The lake encompasses of 2,750 acres (11.1 km 2), which wind around the northwestern hills of Shawnee National Forest. The ownership of the surrounding land is divided among three ...
Crab Orchard Lake is located in an area of Illinois known for high-sulphur coal and former coal-fired heavy industry, including the smelting and refining of heavy metals. During World War II, munitions such as TNT were produced at the Illinois Ordnance Plant north of the lake. A postwar factory, Sangamo-Weston, used PCBs extensively.
Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Powerton Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is a 1,426-acre (577 ha) area of semi-protected habitat on the Illinois River southwest of to the city of Pekin, Illinois within Tazewell County in the U.S. state of Illinois. The parcel is a cooling reservoir owned by NRG Energy, [ 1] an electric power ...