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There are at least 3,223 named lakes and reservoirs in Montana.The following list contains lists of lakes and reservoirs in Montana by county. A lake is a terrain feature (or physical feature), a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin (another type of landform or terrain feature; that is not global).
Washington Lake. The lakes of the White Cloud Mountains are located within the Sawtooth National Recreation Area of Custer County, Idaho. There are hundreds of lakes in the mountains, and most of the lakes were created by alpine glaciers. Many of the lakes are small and unnamed. [1]
The Henrys Lake Mountains, highest point Sheep Point, el. 10,609 feet (3,234 m), [1] (See also [2]) are a small mountain range northwest of West Yellowstone, Montana, in Madison County, Montana. These mountains are also referred to as the Lionhead Mountains, and straddle the Continental Divide along the Idaho-Montana border.
Henrys Lake is a small, shallow alpine lake in the western United States, in eastern Idaho. Approximately 8 square miles (21 km 2 ) in area, at 4 miles (6.4 km) in length and 2 miles (3.2 km) in width, its surface elevation is 6,472 ft (1,973 m) above sea level .
Lake Pend Oreille (/ ˌ p ɒ n d ə ˈ r eɪ / POND-ə-RAY) [2] in the northern Idaho Panhandle is the largest lake in the U.S. state of Idaho and the 38th-largest lake by area in the United States, with a surface area of 148 square miles (380 km 2).
Flathead Lake (Salish: člq̓etkʷ, Kutenai: yawuʔnik̓ ʔa·kuq̓nuk) [3] is a large natural lake in northwest Montana, United States. The lake is a remnant of the ancient, massive glacial dammed lake, Lake Missoula, of the era of the last interglacial. [4] Flathead Lake is a natural lake along the mainline of the Flathead River.
McArthur Lake Deep Creek Earthfill McArthur Lake: Idaho Fish and Game: 1942 Milner Dam: Snake River: Rockfill 73 22 Milner Lake: 36,300 0.0448 58.3 Milner Dam, Inc. 1905 Minidoka Dam: Snake River: Earthfill/concrete 86 26 Lake Walcott: 210,200 0.2593 28 USBR 1906 Mormon Dam: McKinney Creek: Earthfill 23 7.0 Mormon Reservoir: 19,280 0.02378 0
The McGown Lakes are a series of seven small alpine glacial lakes in Custer County, Idaho, United States, located in the Sawtooth Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lakes are in the Stanley Lake Creek watershed and can be accessed from Sawtooth National Forest trail 640.