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The 160,309-acre (649 km 2) lake is the largest artificial lake by surface area in the United States east of the Mississippi River, with 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline. Kentucky Lake has a flood storage capacity of 4,008,000 acre⋅ft (4.944 km 3), more than 2.5 times the next largest lake in the TVA system. It provides a source for hydro ...
Saginaw Bay is a bay within Lake Huron located on the eastern side of the U.S. state of Michigan. It forms the space between Michigan's Thumb region and the rest of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Saginaw Bay is 1,143 square miles (2,960 km 2) in area. [2] It is located in parts of five Michigan counties: Arenac, Bay, Huron, Iosco, and Tuscola.
Kentucky Lake Kincaid Lake Martins Fork Lake Paintsville Lake Shanty Hollow Lake. The following is a list of lakes and reservoirs in the state of Kentucky in the United States. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Lake Barkley (extends into Tennessee) Barren River Lake; Beaver Lake; Boltz Lake ...
Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It was designated as a national recreation area in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy and developed using funds appropriated during the Johnson administration.
Lake County: 085: Baldwin: 1840: From part of Mackinac County. Was named Aischum County until 1843. Has several small lakes and lies near Lake Michigan: 12,734: 575 sq mi (1,489 km 2) Lapeer County: 087: Lapeer: 1822: From parts of Oakland County and St. Clair County. An Americanization of the French la pierre, meaning "the rock" (flint) 88,977 ...
These three counties make up the Greater Tri-Cities, a common term describing this region of Michigan. The region also goes by the name of the Great Lakes Bay Region . Statistically, the region is known as the Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City Metropolitan Area , a combined statistical area composed of these three counties.
Gogebic County: 1582541 Bay Lake 173 acres (70 ha) 45 feet (14 m) Gogebic County: 1619116 East Bay Lake 277 acres (112 ha) Gogebic County: 1619795 West Bay Lake 362 acres (146 ha) Gogebic County: 1580745 Beadle Lake 134 acres (54 ha) Calhoun County: 620810 Beaufort Lake 467 acres (189 ha) Baraga County: 620895 Bear Lake 114 acres (46 ha ...
Because today's largest county by area, Pike County, is 788 square miles (2,041 km 2), it is only still possible to form a new county from portions of more than one existing county; McCreary County was formed in this manner, from parts of Wayne, Pulaski and Whitley counties. Kentucky was originally a single county in Virginia, created in 1776.