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South Shore State Park is an officially designated Illinois state park on 26,000 acres (10,500 ha) in Clinton County, Illinois, United States. It contains part of the shoreline of the largest manmade reservoir in Illinois, Carlyle Lake.
Illinois Department of Natural Resources Carlyle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 37,000 acres (14,973 ha) in Fayette County , Illinois , United States . References
Carlyle Lake is a 25,000-acre (101.2 km 2) reservoir largely located in Clinton County, Illinois, United States, with smaller portions of the lake within Bond and Fayette counties. It is the largest man-made lake in Illinois, and the largest lake wholly contained within the state.
This is a list of lakes and reservoirs in the U.S. state of Illinois. The lakes are ordered by their unique names, (i.e. Lake Smith or Smith Lake would both be listed under "S"). Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
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.
Carlyle is a city in and the county seat of Clinton County, Illinois, United States.The population was 3,253 at the 2020 census. [4]Carlyle is located approximately 50 miles (80 km) east of St. Louis, Missouri, and is home to Illinois' largest man-made lake, Carlyle Lake, and to the General Dean Suspension Bridge, a suspension bridge that is the only one of its kind in Illinois and crosses the ...
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge is a 43,890 acre (180 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge primarily in southwestern Williamson County, but with small extensions into adjacent eastern Jackson and northeastern Union counties of southern Illinois, in the United States. Its land and water contain a wide diversity of flora and fauna.
The Kaskaskia River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 325 miles (523 km) long, [2] in central and southern Illinois in the United States. [3] The second largest river system within Illinois, it drains a rural area of farms, as well as rolling hills along river bottoms of hardwood forests in its lower reaches.