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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 area given is the normal or average area of the lake. The area of some lakes fluctuates substantially.
Very large catchment area compared to own size. No other great lake has that ratio. 13: Ontario Canada United States: Fresh 18,970 km 2 7,320 sq mi [14] 311 km 193 mi 244 m 801 ft [14] 1,631 km 3 391 cu mi [14] The lowest lying of the Great Lakes. 14: Ladoga Russia: Fresh 17,700 km 2 6,800 sq mi 219 km 136 mi 260 m 850 ft 837 km 3 201 cu mi
deepest lake in the United States 23: Seneca Lake: New York: 12,566,054 acre⋅ft (15.5 km 3) 618 ft (188 m) largest of the Finger Lakes: 24: Yellowstone Lake: Wyoming: 12,095,264 acre⋅ft (14.9 km 3) 390 ft (119 m) highest in elevation of large lakes 25: Lake Franklin D. Roosevelt: Washington: 9,402,000 acre⋅ft (11.6 km 3) 349 ft (106 m ...
Lake Michigan is the only one of the Great Lakes that is entirely within the United States; the others form a water boundary between the United States and Canada. The lakes are divided among the jurisdictions of the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New ...
Boatzon looked at the economic and environmental importance of the 10 largest lakes in the U.S. Lake sizes and locations are based on Census data.
Lake Tahoe (/ ˈ t ɑː h oʊ /; Washo: Dáʔaw) is a freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the Western United States, straddling the border between California and Nevada.Lying at 6,225 ft (1,897 m) above sea level, Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America, [4] and at 122,160,280 acre⋅ft (150.7 km 3) it trails only the five Great Lakes as the largest by volume in the United ...
For comparison, the average salinity of the world ocean is 3.5% (35 parts per thousand) [49] and that of the Dead Sea is 33.7%. The ionic composition is similar to seawater, much more so than the Dead Sea's water; compared to the ocean, the Great Salt Lake's waters are slightly enriched in potassium and depleted in calcium. [40]
El Niño is strictly related to water temperatures near the equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean. In April, NOAA issued an El Niño watch , saying there is a 62% chance of the phenomenon ...