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The Great Salt Lake is a remnant of a much larger prehistoric lake called Lake Bonneville. At its greatest extent, Lake Bonneville spanned 22,400 square miles (58,000 km 2), nearly as large as present-day Lake Michigan, and roughly ten times the area of the Great Salt Lake today. [2]
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-made [5] 10 Lake Okeechobee: Florida: 662 sq mi 1,715 km 2: natural [6] 11 Lake Pontchartrain: Louisiana: 631 sq mi 1,634 km 2: natural brackish [7] 12 Lake Sakakawea: North Dakota: 520 sq mi 1,347 km 2: man-made 13 ...
Great Salt Lake: Utah: 15,000,000 acre⋅ft (19 km 3) [4] 33 ft (10 m) salt, variable in area. 22: Crater Lake: Oregon: 14,100,000 acre⋅ft (17.4 km 3) 1,949 ft (594 m) deepest lake in the United States 23: Seneca Lake: New York: 12,566,054 acre⋅ft (15.5 km 3) 618 ft (188 m) largest of the Finger Lakes: 24: Yellowstone Lake: Wyoming ...
Lake Chad, formerly the eleventh largest lake in the world, with an area of 26,000 km 2 (10,000 sq mi) Lake Urmia, formerly with an area of 5,200 km 2 (2,000 sq mi), but down to a tenth that size in 2017. It has since increased in area under a restoration project. List of largest lagoons; List of largest lakes and seas in the Solar System
Although Lake Bonneville and the Great Salt Lake are collectively one lake system, the name "Lake Bonneville" is applied to the lake during the period from 30,000 to 13,000 years ago, and the name "Great Salt Lake" since 13,000 years ago. [24] Lake Bonneville was anomalous in the long-term history of the basin.
Salt Lake County: 035: Salt Lake City: Jan 31, 1850: Original county of State of Deseret: The Great Salt Lake, the largest terminal lake in the Western Hemisphere [37] 1,185,813: 742 sq mi (1,922 km 2) San Juan County: 037: Monticello: Feb 17, 1880: Parts of Kane, Iron, and Piute counties
Lake volumes can also change dramatically over time and during the year, especially for salt lakes in arid climates. For these reasons, and because of changing research, information on lake volumes can vary considerably from source to source. The base data for this article are from The Water Encyclopedia (1990). [2]
Antelope Island, with an area of 42 square miles (109 km 2), is the largest of ten islands located within the Great Salt Lake in Utah.The island lies in the southeastern portion of the lake, near Salt Lake City and Davis County, and becomes a peninsula when the lake is at extremely low levels.