List of lakes in Pennsylvania
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This is a list of lake
s in the state
of Pennsylvania
in the United States
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Lake
A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...
s in the state
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Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
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- Allegheny ReservoirAllegheny ReservoirThe Allegheny Reservoir is a reservoir along the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania and New York, USA. It was created in 1965 by the construction of the Kinzua Dam along the river.-History:...
(Kinzua Lake) - Aylesworth Creek Lake
- Baylors Lake
- Beaver Run ReservoirBeaver Run ReservoirBeaver Run Reservoir is a reservoir in Westmoreland County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The elevation of Beaver Run Reservoir is 1053 feet above sea level.-See also:* List of lakes in Pennsylvania...
- Beechwood Lake
- Belmont Lake
- Beltzville Lake
- Bessemer Lake
- Black Moshannon Lake
- Blue Marsh LakeBlue Marsh LakeBlue Marsh Lake is an artificial lake located northwest of the city of Reading, Pennsylvania, USA. It is in western Berks County, fed into by the Tulpehocken Creek. The main span of the lake is along the border between Bern and Lower Heidelberg Townships. However, the northwesternmost portions lie...
- Briar Creek Lake
- Browns PondBrowns PondBrowns Pond, in the Town of New Windsor in Orange County, New York, USA, is the smaller of two reservoirs for the nearby City of Newburgh. It is hook-shaped, with the circuitous Mount Airy Road running past both ends....
- Bruce LakeBruce LakeBruce Lake is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and Footscray in the Victorian Football League .Lake, who came from Metung, made his league debut in the fifth round of the 1968 VFL season...
- Canadohta LakeCanadohta Lake, PennsylvaniaCanadohta Lake is a census-designated place in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 572 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Canadohta Lake is located at ....
- Canoe Creek Lake
- Canonsburg LakeCanonsburg LakeCanonsburg Lake is a lake in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. It is an artificial lake formed by the waters of Little Chartiers Creek behind a long and high concrete dam. The dam was built in 1943 by Alcoa to create a freshwater reservoir for the Canonsburg Forging Plant, which was considered a...
- Chapman LakeChapman LakeChapman Lake is a reservoir located in Warren County, Pennsylvania entirely within the Chapman State Park.-Geographical Information:The lake is formed by the disbandment of the West Branch of the Tionesta Creek....
- Cheat LakeCheat LakeCheat Lake is a long reservoir on the Cheat River in Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA. It was originally named Lake Lynn, but the Board on Geographic Names officially decided upon Cheat Lake as the reservoir's name in 1976. The surface area of Cheat Lake is about...
- Cloe Lake
- Colyer Lake
- Conemaugh River Lake
- Conneaut LakeConneaut LakeConneaut Lake is the largest natural lake in Pennsylvania. It is located in western Crawford County near a town with the same name. During the summer season, it is heavily populated with people vacationing to the lake area, some from the area spending time in their houses on the lake, and many...
- Cowanesque Lake
- Cowans Gap Lake
- Cranberry Glade Lake
- Crooked Creek Lake
- Curwensville LakeCurwensville LakeCurwensville Lake is a reservoir located just to the south of the town of Curwensville, Pennsylvania. The lake was formed due to the construction of the Curwensville Dam to the north of the lake. Before the dam was built, there were several floods occurring along the West Branch Susquehanna...
- Donegal Lake
- Duke Lake
- Duman Lake
- Dunlap Creek Lake
- Dutch Fork Lake
- East Branch Clarion River LakeEast Branch Clarion River LakeEast Branch Clarion River Lake, or East Branch Lake is a reservoir at Elk State Park in Elk County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by damming the East Branch of the Clarion River. Construction of the rolled earth, impervious core dam was...
- Eaton Reservoir
- Edinboro Lake
- Fairview Gravel Pits
- Fords LakeFords LakeFords Lake is a man made, 67 acre lake with an average depth of on Buttermilk Creek in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania constructed in 1995. Owned by the state of Pennsylvania and controlled by the state Fish and Boat Commission, it is used for recreation purposes, such as boating, which is...
- Foster J. Sayers Lake
- Frances Slocum Lake
- Francis E. Walter Dam
- Fuller LakeFuller LakeFuller Lake is the body of water with of surface area in the former Pine Grove Quarry in Pennsylvania. During the period of iron ore excavation when the pit depth had sufficiently increased, mountain springs that filled the quarry required pumping...
- Glade Lake
- Glade Run Lake
- Glendale Lake
- Gouldsboro Lake
- Green Lick Reservoir
- Greenwood LakeGreenwood LakeGreenwood Lake is an interstate lake approximately seven miles long, straddling the border of New Jersey and New York. It is located in West Milford, New Jersey and Greenwood Lake, New York ....
- Halfway LakeHalfway LakeHalfway Lake is a lake of Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.Halfway Lake is also a lake in Hartley Township, Union County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is also the main focus of R.B. Winter State Park. The lake is filled by spring-fed mountain streams. It was formed by...
- Harris Pond
- Harvey's LakeHarveys Lake, PennsylvaniaHarveys Lake is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The lake within the town is the largest natural lake by volume contained entirely in Pennsylvania. The lake was named after Benjamin Harvey, who founded the borough in 1781 and was a member of the Sons of Liberty, an...
- Hemlock LakeHemlock LakeHemlock Lake is one of the minor Finger Lakes. It is mostly located in Livingston County, New York, south of Rochester, with a portion overlapping into Ontario County....
- Hereford Manor Lakes
- High Point Lake
- Hills Creek Lake
- Holman Lake
- Hopewell Lake
- Hunters Lake
- Indian LakeIndian Lake, PennsylvaniaIndian Lake is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 394 at the 2010 census, down from 450 in 2000...
- Kaercher Creek Lake
- Kahle Lake
- Kettle Creek Lake
- Keystone Lake (Armstrong County)Keystone Lake (Armstrong County, Pennsylvania)Keystone Lake is a reservoir in Armstrong County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The elevation of Keystone Lake is 1076 feet above sea level.-See also:* List of lakes in Pennsylvania...
- Keystone Lake (Westmoreland County)Keystone Lake (Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania)Keystone Lake is a reservoir in Westmoreland County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The elevation of Keystone Lake is 1050 feet above sea level.-See also:* List of lakes in Pennsylvania* List of reservoirs and dams in the United States...
- Kooser Lake
- Kyle LakeKyle LakeKyle Lake was pastor of University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, USA and an author and leader in the Emerging Church movement. Lake was killed in an accident while performing a baptism.-History:...
- Lackawanna Lake
- Lake Arthur
- Lake Augusta
- Lake ErieLake ErieLake Erie is the fourth largest lake of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. It is bounded on the north by the...
- Lake Frances
- Lake Gordon
- Lake Grubb
- Lake Jean
- Lake Koon
- Lake LeBoeuf
- Lake Marburg
- Lake MuhlenbergLake MuhlenbergLake Muhlenberg is a lake located in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the United States.Part of the Cedar Beach Parkway and part of the city's park system, Lake Muhlenberg is stocked for fishing and is a refuge for many ducks and Canada geese.The lake is so-named due to its proximity to Muhlenberg...
- Lake NockamixonLake NockamixonNockamixon State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on in Bedminster and Haycock Townships in northern Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the United States...
- Lake Pleasant
- Lake Scranton
- Lake Sheridan
- Lake SomersetLake SomersetLake Somerset is an artificial lake created by the Somerset Dam on the Stanley River in South East Queensland. The dam was completed in 1953 providing flood mitigation and water storage for the cities of Brisbane and Ipswich and is the site of a small 4 MW hydroelectric power station.At full...
- Lake Wallenpaupack (Pennsylvania)Lake WallenpaupackLake Wallenpaupack is a reservoir in Pennsylvania, USA. It was created in 1926 by PPL, the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company, for hydroelectric purposes. It is located near Hawley, on the border of Pike and Wayne counties in northeastern Pennsylvania...
- Lake Wilhelm
- Lake WinolaLake WinolaLake Winola is a public, 185-acre glacial lake located in Overfield township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. The lake is composed of an eastern and western basin, separated by a peninsula entering the lake from north to south. The Lake is managed by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat...
- Laurel Hill Lake
- Laurel LakeLaurel LakeLaurel Lake is a waterbody with recreation area at Pine Grove Furnace State Park .-History:The lake was created for supplying a water race to Laurel Forge by an 1830 dam on Mountain Creek...
- Leaser Lake
- Levittown Lake
- Lily Lake
- Little Pine Lake
- Locust Lake
- Long Pond (Lake Alden)
- Lower Lake
- Lower Woods Pond
- Loyalhanna Lake
- Lyman Run Lake
- Mahoning Creek Lake
- Marsh Creek Lake
- Mauch Chunk Lake
- Meadow Grounds Lake
- Memorial Lake
- Miller Pond
- Minsi Lake
- Mountain Springs Lake
- Nessmuk Lake
- Opossum Lake
- Parker Lake
- Pinchot Lake
- Poe Lake
- Promised Land Lake
- Prompton Lake
- Pymatuning Lake (Also extends into OhioOhioOhio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
) - Raccoon Lake
- Raystown LakeRaystown LakeRaystown Lake is a reservoir in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The largest lake that is entirely within Pennsylvania, it was created by the United States Army Corps of Engineers around 1913 by the damming of the Raystown Branch Juniata River which created a shallow lake in the river valley. ...
- Rose Valley Lake
- Sand Spring Lake
- Scotts Run Lake
- Shawnee Lake
- Shenango River LakeShenango River LakeShenango River Lake is a reservoir in the Shenango River Valley of western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. Authorized by the Flood Control Acts of 1938, the lake is one of 16 flood control projects in the Pittsburgh District designed to prevent flooding. It is a popular site among anglers and...
- Speedwell Forge Lake
- Stephen Foster Lake
- Stevens LakeStevens LakeStevens Lake is a lake of Colchester County, in Nova Scotia, Canada.-References:*...
- Struble Lake
- Tamarack Lake
- Tioga-Hammond Lakes
- Tionesta Lake
- Tobyhanna Lake
- Tuscarora Lake
- Union City Lake
- Upper Woods Pond
- Virgin Run Lake
- Walker LakeWalker Lake (Pennsylvania)Clarence F. Walker Lake is a 239 acre reservoir, formed by a dam and used for flood control and recreation. It is located in Adams Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania near the town of Troxelville...
- Whipple Dam Lake
- White Oak PondWhite Oak PondWhite Oak Pond is a water body in Grafton County in the Lakes Region of central New Hampshire, in the town of Holderness. Water from White Oak Pond flows north to Squam Lake and is part of the Pemigewasset River watershed....
- Woodcock Creek Lake
- Yellow Creek Lake
- Youghiogheny River LakeYoughiogheny River LakeThe Youghiogheny River Lake is a flood control reservoir in southwestern Pennsylvania and western Maryland. It was formed in 1944 by the damming of the Youghiogheny River upstream from Confluence, Pennsylvania....
(Also extends into MarylandMarylandMaryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
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See also
- List of rivers of Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission maps and guides