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Max. depth. 76.77 ft (23.40 m) [1] Lake Marion is a large man-made lake in central South Carolina. It has a 315-mile (507 km) shoreline and covers nearly 110,000 acres (450 square kilometers or 173.7 square miles) [2] of rolling farmlands, former marshes, and river valley landscape. With territory spanning five counties, the lake is referred to ...
Area. 15,000 acres (61 km 2) Established. 1941. Governing body. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Website. Santee National Wildlife Refuge. Santee National Wildlife Refuge is a 15,000-acre (61 km 2) refuge alongside Lake Marion, an impoundment of the Santee River of Clarendon County, South Carolina.
Santee is a town in Orangeburg County along the Santee River Valley in central South Carolina, United States. It has become a resort town of note located centrally north-south along the Atlantic Seaboard of South Carolina. The region has been rural, with a primarily agricultural economy typical of Orangeburg County, but is now known primarily ...
75.46 feet (23.00 m) [1] Lake Moultrie is a large man-made lake in South Carolina. Created in the 1940s by a state utility project to provide electricity to rural SC by damming the Santee River, it covers more than 60,000 acres (240 km 2). The third largest lake in the state, it provides a wide variety of recreational opportunities, including ...
Nov. 16—AUSTIN — The annual Texas winter tradition of rainbow trout stocking returns to waterbodies across the state to kick off the holiday season. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department ...
Santee Cooper Country. Coordinates: 33.561°N 80.481°W. Santee Cooper Country is a tourism district in the south central area of the U.S. state of South Carolina. It surrounds the Santee Cooper Lakes, Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion, which were formed from damming the Santee River and the Cooper River. This tourism district was created by the ...
158 camping sites. Santee State Park is in the Sandhills of South Carolina on the western edge of the 110,000-acre (445 km 2) Lake Marion. It is located off SC 6, three miles (5 km) northwest of the town of Santee and I-95. [3] The park offers boating, hiking, camping, birding, canoeing and kayaking. Well known for fishing, this park offers a ...
The Santee River is the second largest river on the eastern coast of the United States, second only to the Susquehanna River in drainage area and flow. [2] Much of the upper river is impounded by the expansive, horn-shaped Lake Marion reservoir, formed by the 8-mile (13 km)-long Santee Dam. The dam was built during the Great Depression of the ...