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Toledo Bend straddles the Louisiana and Texas border west of Many.. Toledo Bend Reservoir is a reservoir on the Sabine River between Texas and Louisiana. The lake has an area of 185,000 acres (750 km 2), the largest man-made body of water partially in both Louisiana and Texas, the largest in the South, and the fifth largest by surface acre in the United States.
man-made 83 Lake Mattamuskeet: North Carolina: 63 sq mi 163 km 2: natural 86 Watts Bar Lake: Tennessee: 61 sq mi 158 km 2: man-made 86 Lake Wallula: Oregon–Washington: 61 sq mi 158 km 2: man-made 88 Lake Lanier: Georgia: 59 sq mi 153 km 2: man-made 89 Lake Tawakoni: Texas: 57 sq mi 148 km 2: man-made 89 Elephant Butte Lake: New Mexico: 57 sq ...
The Channel was used by steamboats to reach the port at Jefferson, until water levels fell after the removal of the Great Raft.. Caddo Lake has been used by Native Americans for hundreds of years, but substantial commercial development would only begin with invention of the steamboat and US annexation of Louisiana and Texas by treaty (Texas is the only State in the United States to have joined ...
Lake Alan Henry The following is a list of reservoirs and lakes in the U.S. state of Texas . Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
man-made 80: Lake McConaughy: Nebraska: 1,756,300 acre⋅ft (2.17 km 3) 135 ft (41 m) man-made 81: Lake Livingston: Texas: 1,750,000 acre⋅ft (2.16 km 3) 90 ft (27 m) man-made 82: Clarks Hill Lake: Georgia - South Carolina: 1,730,000 acre⋅ft (2.13 km 3) 180 ft (55 m) man-made 83: Grand Lake o' the Cherokees: Oklahoma: 1,672,000 acre⋅ft (2. ...
Lake Texoma is situated on the border between Oklahoma and Texas in the Oklahoma counties of Bryan, Marshall, Johnston, and Love, and the Texas counties of Grayson and Cooke. [6] It has a surface area of 89,000 acres (360 km 2 ), a conservation water volume of 2,525,568 acre⋅ft (3.115242 km 3 ), and a flood-control volume of 5,194,163 acre⋅ ...
Lake Powell, impounded by Glen Canyon Dam, is the second-largest reservoir in the U.S. This is a list of largest reservoirs in the United States, including all artificial lakes with a capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3). Figures given are for maximum storage capacity (flood pool) of reservoirs, not regular storage ...
The Reservoir is upstream of the Big Thicket National Preserve. The reservoir's capacity is 3,997,600 acre-feet (4.9310 × 10 9 m 3), and is the largest lake wholly within the state of Texas. It is the ninth largest reservoir in the United States. Sam Rayburn Reservoir is operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth district.