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Lake Winnipesaukee (/ ˌ w ɪ n ɪ p ə ˈ s ɔː k i /) is the largest lake in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, located in the Lakes Region at the foothills of the White Mountains.It is approximately 21 miles (34 km) long (northwest-southeast) and from 1 to 9 miles (1.6 to 14.5 km) wide (northeast-southwest), covering 69 square miles (179 km 2)—71 square miles (184 km 2) when Paugus Bay is ...
Scale depiction of the 15 largest lakes in the US. The following is a list of the 100 largest lakes of the United States by normal surface area.The top twenty lakes in size are as listed by the National Atlas of the United States, a publication of the United States Department of the Interior.
The water bodies that are listed include natural lakes and reservoirs, including areas on rivers impounded behind dams. Wikipedia articles have been written about the following New Hampshire lakes. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
Mirror Lake is a 333-acre (1.35 km 2) [1] [2] water body located in Carroll County in the Lakes Region of central New Hampshire, United States, in the town of Tuftonboro.The lake connects by a short outlet stream (not navigable) to Lake Winnipesaukee.
Paugus Bay is a 1,227-acre (4.97 km 2) [1] water body located in Belknap County in the Lakes Region of central New Hampshire, United States, in the city of Laconia.A short channel at its north end connects it with Lake Winnipesaukee in the village of Weirs Beach, and a dam on its southern end separates it from Opechee Bay in the village of Lakeport.
The Wentworth-Crescent watershed is a sub-watershed of the Lake Winnipesaukee watershed and the greater Merrimack River watershed. The three major water bodies, Sargents Pond, Crescent Lake, and Lake Wentworth, and 11 year-round tributaries are included in the 37-square-mile (96 km 2) sub-watershed, containing over 4,000 acres (16 km 2) of surface water, 617 acres (2.50 km 2) of wetlands, and ...
The National Water Quality Inventory Report to Congress is a general report on water quality, providing overall information about the number of miles of streams and rivers and their aggregate condition. [65] The CWA requires states to adopt standards for each of the possible designated uses that they assign to their waters.
Covering 6,791 acres (27.48 km 2), [1] Squam is the second-largest lake located entirely in New Hampshire. Squam Lake in 2006 Squam Lake from the Asquam House, Holderness, NH. Squam Lake was originally called Keeseenunknipee, [clarification needed] which meant "the goose lake in the highlands". The white settlers that followed shortened the ...