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Lake Shelbyville is a reservoir located in Shelby County, Illinois and Moultrie County, Illinois created by damming the Kaskaskia River at Shelbyville, Illinois. The lake's normal surface pool is 11,100 acres (44.9 km 2) at an elevation of 183 meters (600.4 ft). The area that surrounds the lake is the Shelbyville State Fish and Wildlife Area.
Shelbyville Lake and Dam on the Kaskaskia River at Shelbyville, Illinois. 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]
Shelbyville State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 6,200 acres (2,500 ha) in Moultrie County, Illinois, United States. It covers part of the watershed of Lake Shelbyville . References
Members of the Local Environmental Action Demanded (LEAD) Agency, an area advocacy group, worry that raising the water level will make flooding worse at the lake's upstream rivers.
Drone footage shot by storm chaser Brandon Clement showed the improvement in water level and snowpack in places such as Folson Lake, Lake Oroville and Donner Pass, since last summer.
The West Okaw forms an arm of Lake Shelbyville where the natural rivers used to meet. The West Okaw is the western fork of the Kaskaskia, which was formerly known as the Okaw. The name "Okaw" comes from the Mississippi Valley French au Kaskaskies ("to the Kaskaskias "), which was commonly shortened to au Kas . [ 2 ]
Bodies of water Image Remarks Clinton Lake State Recreation Area: DeWitt: 9,300 38 1978: Clinton Lake, Salt Creek, Old Creek: Eagle Creek State Recreation Area: Shelby: 11,100 45 May 1963: Lake Shelbyville, Eagle Creek: Eldon Hazlet State Recreation Area: Clinton: 3,000 12 ? Carlyle Lake, Lake Shelbyville: Frank Holten State Recreation Area: St ...
Sign indicating high water marks of different floods in Missouri, U.S. The strandline at Ringstead Beach, Dorset, UK High water mark memorial at Lake Missoula, Montana, U.S. High water mark sign in Bisset Park, Virginia, U.S. High water marks of Arno river floods on August 13, 1547 (left) and November 3, 1844 (metal plate on the right).