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An aerial view of the city of Tyler, the namesake of Lake Tyler. Lake Tyler (West) is a man-made public water reservoir located south-east of Tyler, Texas, in eastern Smith County. While named after the town of Tyler (pop. 104,789), Lake Tyler is closer to the smaller cities of Whitehouse (pop. 7660) and Arp (pop. 970).
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 Lake Champlain: New York–Vermont–Quebec: 490 sq mi 1,269 km 2: natural 14 Becharof Lake: Alaska: 453 sq mi 1,173 km 2: natural 15 Lake St ...
The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., [1] it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which end in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico.
As of July 2024, the last time the lake was considered to be at full capacity was on July 7, 2019. [10] Since then, the lake levels have begun to decline once again. As of July 2023, Medina Lake was the lowest it’s been since 2015, only being filled to about 5% capacity, compared to 12% capacity in 2022.
Impoundment of water commenced in January 1967. The lake has an 85 mi (137 km) shoreline and occupies an area of 11,630 acres (4,710 ha). Its main purposes are flood control, municipal water supply and recreation. TPWD leased land along the lake in 1968 from the federal government opened the park in 1970.
Toledo Bend straddles the Louisiana and Texas border west of Many.. Toledo Bend Reservoir is a reservoir on the Sabine River between Texas and Louisiana. The lake has an area of 185,000 acres (750 km 2), the largest man-made body of water partially in both Louisiana and Texas, the largest in the South, and the fifth largest by surface acre in the United States.
In Texas, there are 98 of these districts, covering nearly 70% of the state, according to the Texas Water Development Board. The Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District has the following ...
Lake Alan Henry The following is a list of reservoirs and lakes in the U.S. state of Texas . Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.