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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 ...
During the summer the lake is about 5,100 acres (2,100 ha), has 220 miles (350 km) of shoreline, is 39 miles long, and is 65 feet (20 m) deep in the deepest portion of the lake, which includes the area around the dam. During the winter the lake decreases to 2,180 acres (880 ha) at an elevation of 470 feet (140 m). [1]
Cave Run Lake, located south of Morehead, Kentucky, USA along Kentucky Route 801, is an 8,270-acre (33 km 2) reservoir built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.The 148 feet (45 m), half-mile (800 m) dam (and outlet works) construction began in 1965 and was completed in 1973.
The Rough River is a 136-mile-long (219 km) [1] tributary of the Green River in west-central Kentucky in the United States. It's located about 70 miles southwest of Louisville, and flows through Breckinridge, Hardin, Grayson, and Ohio counties. Via the Green and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. [2]
Williamstown Lake is a public 365-acre (1.48 km 2) recreational lake and water reservoir in Grant County, Kentucky.It was created in 1955 by impounding the South Fork of Grassy Creek in order to supply the community with water as the existing reservoir, now the centerpiece of nearby JB Miller Park was unable to keep up with demand.
Location: Laurel / Whitley counties, Kentucky, United States: Coordinates: 1]: Type: Reservoir: Basin countries: United States: Max. length: 19 mi (31 km): Surface area: 5,600 acres (2,300 ha): Average depth: 65 ft (20 m): Max. depth: ca. 280 ft (85 m): Water volume: 435,000 acre⋅ft (0.537 km 3): Shore length 1: 206 mi (332 km): Surface elevation: 1,015 ft (309 m): 1 Shore length is not a ...
Paintsville Lake officially opened to the public in 1983, three years before Paintsville Lake State Park was established. On December 9, 1978, ten-thousand Johnson County residents had to be evacuated from the area below the construction site of the Paintsville Lake dam. This is because the area had recently received eight inches (200 mm) of rain,
Grayson Lake is a 1,500-acre (6.1 km 2) reservoir in Carter and Elliott counties in Kentucky.It was created by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1968 by impounding the Little Sandy River [3] with the Grayson Dam, an earthen structure 120 feet (37 m) high, creating a maximum capacity of 118,990 acre-feet (146,770,000 m 3).