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Lake Ontario: New York–Ontario: 7,340 sq mi 19,011 km 2: natural [3] 6 Lake of the Woods: Manitoba–Minnesota–Ontario: 1,679 sq mi 4,349 km 2: natural 7 Iliamna Lake: Alaska: 1,014 sq mi 2,626 km 2: natural 8 Great Salt Lake: Utah: 950 sq mi 2,460 km 2: natural salt [4] 9 Lake Oahe: North Dakota–South Dakota: 685 sq mi 1,774 km 2: man ...
Flathead Lake: Montana: 18,788,243 acre⋅ft (23.2 km 3) 371 ft (113 m) Remnant of Glacial Lake Missoula 17: Fort Peck Lake: Montana: 18,700,000 acre⋅ft (23.1 km 3) 220 ft (67 m) man-made 18: Lake Chelan: Washington: 15,800,000 acre⋅ft (19.5 km 3) 1,486 ft (453 m) 19: Lake of the Woods: Ontario - Minnesota - Manitoba: 15,700,000 acre⋅ft ...
There were no African-Americans included in the Lake of the Woods census. The center of Lake of the Woods. The population was somewhat older than the country as a whole, the median age being 39 years in Lake of the Woods and 35 years elsewhere. The community had a higher percentage of veterans: One hundred sixteen residents had served in the ...
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
Eleven reservoirs have a storage capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3); all of these except one are in or on drainages that feed into the Central Valley. The largest single reservoir in California is Shasta Lake, with a full volume of more than 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.615 km 3).
The other name (2) Lac des Bois, or Lake of the Woods, seems to have been a mistranslation [6] of the Indian [sic] name (Anishinaabe) by which the Lake was known. [7] One of the names currently used in Anishinaabe for this lake is Babiikwaawangaa-zaagaŹ¼igan meaning "Lake with Uneven Sand" referring to the lake's sand dunes. [8]
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Contains Manitoulin Island, the world's largest lake island. [17] 5: Michigan United States: Fresh 58,030 km 2 22,410 sq mi [14] 494 km 307 mi 282 m 925 ft [14] 4,930 km 3 1,180 cu mi [14] The smaller lobe of Lake Michigan–Huron. The largest lake (by area) that is located entirely in one country. 6: Tanganyika