Lakes

Lakes

A database referring to large standing bodies of fresh water in a basin. A lake is apart from rivers or streams that serve to fill or drain the lake.

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Mother Goose

Water bodies; Lakes

Mother Goose Lake is a 6.4 mile long lake located at head of King Salmon River, on the Alaska Peninsula, 21 miles south of Ugashik, Aleutian Range. It was named in 1923 by R. H. Sargent, USGS, as ...

Selawik Lake

Water bodies; Lakes

Selawik Lake is a lake located 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Selawik, Alaska. It is 31 miles (50 km) long. It is adjacent to the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge and the Baldwin Peninsula, feeding ...

Tempe Town Lake is a reservoir that occupies a portion of the currently dry riverbed of the Salt River as it passes through the city of Tempe, Arizona just north of Tempe Butte.On July 20, 2010, a ...

San Carlos Lake

Water bodies; Lakes

San Carlos Lake was formed by the construction of the Coolidge Dam and is rimmed by 158 miles (254 km) of shoreline. The lake is located within the 3,000-square-mile (7,800 km2) San Carlos Apache ...

Naknek Lake

Water bodies; Lakes

Naknek Lake is a lake in southern Alaska, near the base of the Alaska Peninsula. The lake is 64 km (40 mi) long and 5–13 km (3–8 miles) wide. The lake drains west into Bristol Bay through the Naknek ...

Teshekpuk Lake

Water bodies; Lakes

Teshekpuk Lake is a 22 miles (35 km)-wide lake on the Arctic coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, South of Pitt Point, 12 miles (19 km) East of Harrison Bay, 80 miles (130 km) East of Point Barrow.

Iliamna Lake

Water bodies; Lakes

Iliamna Lake or Lake Iliamna is a lake in southwest Alaska, at the north end of the Alaska Peninsula, between Kvichak Bay and Cook Inlet, about 100 miles (160 km) west of Seldovia, Alaska.